[ale] Remote X and Mozilla Profile Behavior

[Jeff Hubbs]

Dow -

As it happens, I'm "ssh -X"ing from RH to Mandrake, and the UIDs/GIDs
are 500/500 and 501/501 respectively.  So, you may be right, but what's
throwing me for a loop is, how does the remote Mandrake machine even
*know or care* what UID/GID I have on the local RH machine??  

I know that when I ssh -X like this, I'm only asked for a password and
not a username, so I assumed that the local ssh was passing the local
username (but not GID/UID) to the remote sshd.  And, when I do ssh -X
<remote_machine_ip> and supply the password on the remote machine, if I
type "id" I see "uid=501(jeff) gid=501(jeff) groups=501(jeff)" just like
I would if I log on at the remote machine's own console.  

Now, is it possible that Mozilla is looking at UID, GID, *and* display
number to determine identity for profile purposes?  That's not the
default behavior I might have picked.

- Jeff

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 20:15, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 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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