William Morder wrote:

> However, it seems like pulse is getting forced on us, like it or not. Or
> is this not so?

It happened many moons ago already.

youmust know pulse is session based, so it starts with the session. As Mike
Bird said, the home path of the user is missing for some reason.

You can try creating new user and see if it works there. this will help to
narrow down the problem

regards