[ale] XDM login

tfreeman tfreeman at vnet.net
Sat May 25 14:38:20 EDT 1996


My Linux/Unix experience is quite limited, but I've used SCSI for all of 
that experience. If you don't point Lilo at too big a partition (which 
apparently I did recently; thanks to this list for getting me straight), 
I'm not aware of any drawbacks.

On Fri, 24 May 1996, Michael David Ivey wrote:

> I've got two questions re: XDM.  
> 
> One:  I'm thinking of adding the shadow suite.  Is there an XDM and xlock 
> for shadow passwords?
> 
> Two:  Is there a way to make XDM write to utmp?  I don't want a bunch of 
> logins for every xterm, but I would like it to indicate that someone is 
> at the console.
> 
> 
> Also, I'm about to take the SCSI leap...am I going to regret it?  Are my 
> filesystems going to deteriorate?  Am I going to have hangs and crashes?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Michael Ivey, Director of Computer Operations   |  ivey at gsu.edu
> Georgia State Television                        |  http://gstv.gsu.edu/~ivey
>                             
> Key to UNIX:
> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 
> 






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