If a user has a home directory that has the following permissions: stat /home/user0 File: `/home/user0' Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 5472824 Links: 2 Access: (0700/drwx------) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2007-12-04 13:26:29.000000000 +0100 Modify: 2007-12-03 17:06:53.000000000 +0100 Change: 2007-12-03 17:06:53.000000000 +0100 ..the session will fail, with an error message in xinit.log: Exception while starting child! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/sessionstart.py", line 47, in start self.start_xvnc() File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/vsm/sessionstart.py", line 340, in start_xvnc os.chdir(self.session_env['HOME']) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/user0' This could be handled in a nicer way. Some possible actions: *) If create_homedir is True, we could fix the permissions. On the other hand, if an administrator has forbidden a user access to her own home directory, perhaps we should respect that and.. *) Just give an error message in the agent log and return with error to VSM Server.
