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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#1491: No multiple users
From:       Roland Nagtegaal <roland () tschai ! demon ! nl>
Date:       1999-06-29 21:26:51
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severity: grave



I think I found a very bad bug in the KDE system, although I'm not sure. I have
built a network,
one server with /opt/kde, exporting /opt to all clients (running Linux) with
nfs.
Some users have to work under one single account, simultanuously, from several
computers.
This means they all have the same account, /home/trainee, also mounted by nfs
from the server.


BUG: When they do this, at all but one computer suddenly the buttons, menus etc.
of KDE
will work anymore. You can still execute commands from a shell, or have
wordperfect 8 open a
new window, but you can no longer launch any new KDE application from the menus
or bar.

I would say this is a race condition: the first user logs in as trainee, and
then opens some critical
files in his or hers .kde/ directory, and when the second logs in, this critical
file is already open
and therefore nothing works anymore.

This is a real showstopper, because I really cannot give all these trainees
different accounts.


Roland Nagtegaal


ps. please respond quickly, because this is about a life system I built and I
have to resolve this
problem pronto...

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