[ale] Remote X and Mozilla Profile Behavior

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Wed Jan 22 20:15:05 EST 2003


You may have the same login name but do you have the same UID and GID on 
all your machines?  I wonder if that could affect it?
Dow


hbbs at attbi.com wrote:

>As my machine-hopping mojo improves, I've noticed that if I ssh -X from one
>machine to my usual desktop machine under my regular user account to run
>Mozilla, all my Mozilla bookmarks, saved usernames, etc. have vanished and
>Mozilla acts like it has never seen me before.   I've poked around in the
>Mozilla prefs and the ~/.mozilla directory and it's really not clear to me how
>or why it's separating me out as being any different from when I log on locally
>when I log on remotely.  What's up with this?
>
>Part of the reason I care is that if I were someday to create a "Mozilla app
>server" I'd want people's Mozilla profiles to be called up properly no matter
>from which machine they're sitting.
>
>- Jeff
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