d-bus head

Joe Shaw joe@assbarn.com
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:35:05 -0500


On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 22:17, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Yuck. The system daemon won't work at all right now on OS X then.
> (You could enable cookie auth in its config file, but it's not secure in
> all cases, e.g. with NFS homedir)

We'll run into problems with other OSes like Solaris which also don't
have it.  The credential passing stuff is all very non-portable across
Unix right now.

Is there some reliable way to detect if the home directory is on NFS and
then do something in /tmp instead?

Joe