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Sorry if this is a rehash for some of you.

A number of folks have had problems with folks on their network losing their  
Preference settings (or rather, not having them stay changed) when they log  
out and back in.

This generally will happen when a user's home directory is on an network NFS  
mounted drive.  The problem is that Preferences runs SUID root and expects  
root access to the device it is writing to.

The fix is to export the server volume with root access to the machines that  
need it, or you can export it to the world with root access (obvious security  
issues here).  In your /etc/exports file:
     /Users -root=machine1:machine2:machine3 etc.......
to allow certain machines root access to /User and:
     /Users -anon=0
to allow the world root access to /User.

Am I to understand that 3.0 does not SUID to store preferences?

Shawn Broderick
Monitor Company / Information Engineering
Director, BCS NeXT
shawn@monitor.com
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Shawn Broderick
Monitor Company / Information Engineering
Director, BCS NeXT
shawn@monitor.com