[ale] Remote X and Mozilla Profile Behavior

[James P. Kinney III]

I would be suspicious of console environment vs. remote environment. 
Not all of the same environment variable are present during a remote
session.

By default, if the username is NOT specified, it assumed to be the same
on the far end of an ssh connection. The ability to select the username
makes for some fun tricks for transferring files between two remote
machine from a third one.

I know there is a different set of shell parameters used when loging in
through a remote connecting device, like a modem, or <shudder> telnet
</shudder>.  This is handled with gettys and much black magic script
foo.

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 20:31, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 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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