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Stuart Levy (slevy@ricci.geom.umn.edu) wrote:
: 
: Three times in the last few days we've had a NeXT get into an odd state.
: Any user who logs in from the console gets root's environment:
: Terminal creates superuser shells, the dock is that of root, $HOME = /, etc.
: 
: rlogin from elsewhere, or "su username", gives a shell with the proper
: owner, so the machine hasn't completely forgotten about that user.
: Only valid account/passwords are accepted; you can't type just *anything*
: and be logged in as root.
: 
: /usr/lib/NextStep/Loginwindow.app doesn't appear to have been modified.
: 
: ---> Rebooting the machine restores normality. <---
: 
: 

	I suspect that this machine is not mounting the user's file system

Check this: When a user logs in, use the workspace and look at his home
directory.  If it's there, log out and immediately log in again.  If things 
are normal, then the automount is slow mounting the the user disk partition.

If the user's directory is unavailable, open a shell and type 
/etc/mount -ap
This will show if the partition is mounted properly.

As to it's intermittent nature:  If you are running the automounter, consider
changing so that mounts are fixed.  If you aren't, then someone with 
privledge is unmounting that disk.  (Check all scripts run by cron)

See if the filesystem is softmounted.  If so, try changing to hard.

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