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shawn@monitor.com writes:

>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.

But I have changed my Preferences to mode 755 so that no one but
root can change the clock time.  Why should Preferences need to be
suid in order to write to the home dir of the person logged in?
(I have been noticing this problem as well, keyboard preferences
aren't getting saved)

>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.

No way, not going to open up security holes like that... I want a
better answer... :-)

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