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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich 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 Message-ID: <RICH.92Nov23111959@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1992Nov23.154921.29674@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:19:59 GMT Lines: 46 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 *** Error code 1 Stop.