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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: xdm and login
In-Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de's message of Mon, 23 Nov 92 15:49:21 GMT
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References: <1992Nov23.154921.29674@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:19:59 GMT
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In article <1992Nov23.154921.29674@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:
I'm looking for a method to use xdm to come up on my system permanently
in a fashion similar to the way it's done on most systems, e.g. Ultrix:
at the end of /etc/ttys:
:0 "/usr/bin/login -P /usr/bin/Xprompter -C /usr/bin/dxsession" none on secure w
indow="/usr/bin/Xcfb"
:1 "/usr/bin/login -P /usr/local/xprompter-ncd -C /usr/local/start-ncd -e" none
on secure
What would it require? A special login program? A special init?
Any clues?
just edit /etc/ttys and /etc/rc.local -- nothing special is needed.
>From /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc/README.386BSD in the XFree86 distribution:
If you would rather run xdm on bootup, disable logins on the console
by removing `vga' from /etc/ttys, and add code like the following to
your /etc/rc.local script.
if [ -x /usr/X386/bin/xdm ]; then
echo -n ' xdm'; /usr/X386/bin/xdm
fi
If you have replaced crypt on your system (see Chris Demetriou's
/usr/386bsd.errata/crypt.instructions) and use encrypted passwords,
you cannot use the supplied xdm binary. The supplied xdm binary uses
the 386BSD 0.1's dummy crypt routine that prints the message 'Crypt
not present in system' in the xdm-errors file each time a user logs
in. You can ignore this. It merely tells you that passwords are
unencrypted. US export restrictions prevent us from providing an xdm
binary with a real crypt. If you need it, get the xdm sources
(mit/clients/xdm) and recompile it using `xmkmf -a' and `make'.
Rich Murphey
--
--Chris
Christoph P. U. Kukulies
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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