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Beta has trouble with LDAP users


  • Subject: Beta has trouble with LDAP users
  • From: Aaron Suggs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:44:08 -0600

I work in a computer lab at a university. We use LDAP to verify that users have access privileges, then automatically create a local home directory for them as part of a login script. Each user's local path is given by the LDAP server, so the user's directory is not in the usual /Users/ directory.

This seems to break the X11 beta. I can install and run X11 as an admin, and everything works. It also works as any local user. But when I log in as an LDAP user, X11 fails to launch. On one trial as an LDAP user, X11 launched and opened xterm, but that immediately threw an error that xinit cannot find the uid. But on most trials X11 crashes before it launched xterm.

I attempted to fix this by copying the entire admin directory to the LDAP user's directory, but X11 still didn't work for the LDAP user.

Any tips on how to get X11 to work with LDAP users? Otherwise I'll submit this as a bug.

Thanks,
Aaron
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