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To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: NFS4: ssh + unlink(~/.Xauthority) delays
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 02:42:30PM -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> Malahal Naineni wrote:
> 
>   NFS3 doesn't have delegations and this file placement should not be an
>   issue in NFSv4 either if it is working correctly!
> 
> Xauthority doesn't belong in $HOME, it belongs on the local disk.  That has
> nothing to do with NFS v3/v4.  It has to do with limiting distribution and
> exposure of sensitive information.

Yah.  Unlinking a file shouldn't take a minute, though, so we do have a
bug, however it was found.  Let me know if the patch I referred to fixes
it.

--b.