funny user moment (and perhaps a bug)

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 08:54 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 08:07 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Hmm, what the heck for?
> 
> We have set the following in /etc/profile.d/gconf.sh (and csh equiv):
> export GCONF_SHARED_LOCKS=1
> export GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS=1
> 
> This allows our folks logged into GNOME on their desktop to also walk
> into a lab and log into hosts sharing $HOME.  Without the above
> environment variables, GNOME always complained.

Right, fair enough.  I think there's always been the expectation that
you can at least share $HOME between two different logons on different
machines.  I was reading "log into gnome twice on the same machine"
rather than sharing $HOME and logging into two different boxes.

Dan