On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 02:41:16PM +0100, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > Scenario: The .Xauthority file is in a user's home directory which > is NFS mounted. The NFS filesystem is exported no_root_squash. So if > the permissions on .Xauthority are correct, then even root wont have > access to it. actually, the NFS should be exported with root_squash (which is the default) in order to get that behaviour... have fun, adc