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Re: /home as noexec and X



>>>>> "Avery" == Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca> writes:

    Ben> Well, there does remain the fact that ~/.xsession does not
    Ben> need to be an sh script, but I totally agree; Debian should
    Ben> not require ~/.xsession to be executable. I don't think any
    Ben> other Unixes do.

    Avery> The session start script at U Waterloo uses logic something
    Avery> like this:

    Avery> 	if [ -e ~/.xsession ]; then if [ -x ~/.xsession ];
    Avery> then exec ~/.xession else sh ~/.xsession fi fi

    Avery> I like it.

This is an excellent idea. Branden, I suggest this be how our xinit
scripts do it.

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