The "root"-option is more secure, but this setting has one big drawback: You cannot use netgroup names with the -root option and you can specify only 256 host names!
If you have only few machines, the -root option is the better choice. In large server farms with more than 256 machines that are running CDE+dtlogin (XDMCP) the -root option will not work.
Horst
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Sterling Woodcock [mailto:sirbruce@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Freitag, 19. Mai 2000 16:00 To: Thaller Horst (MDCA Villach); bhaskar.g@philips.com; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Problem in Saving CDE Settings
I think it´s a problem with the permissions on your home directory. The dtlogin process (CDE) reads and writes configuration files in the homedirectory (~/.dtlogin/..). The owner of the process is root --> But
root
has not permissions on mounted directories!
Try out to export your homedirecties with the "anon=0"-flag in
/etc/exports
-or- you should open your homedirectories for everybody (chmod 777 homedir)
:-((
to avoid this problem.
Yikes! Both are very insecure choices for a solution!!!
The correct answer is to simply export the home directories with root access for those machines that are running CDE that they are logging in through.
Bruce