Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:03:53 -0500
From: Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com>
To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: Sven Geggus <lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS4: ssh + unlink(~/.Xauthority) delays
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> Sven Geggus wrote:
> 
>   Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> wrote:
>   
>   > No, the question is why did X put that file in your home directory.  That's
>   > not where it belongs.  I've got this in my .xinitrc:
>   > 
>   > setenv XAUTHORITY /tmp/Xauthority`id -u`
>   
>   I agree, that ~/.Xauthority is probably not the best place for this file,
>   but it is the default (at least in Debian).
>   
>   If it is expected behaviour that this will not work correctly with shared
>   Homedirectories, I wonder why this did not cause me any trouble with NFS3
>   for many years.

NFS3 doesn't have delegations and this file placement should not be an
issue in NFSv4 either if it is working correctly!

Regards, Malahal.