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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
- *** Error code 1
-
- Stop.
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