Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, David Z Maze wrote: > Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 3) update-rc.d -f xdm remove > > This is arguably bad advice; if xdm ever gets updated (as in a > security release), update-rc.d will notice that there are no links for > xdm, conclude that the package was nev

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
David Z Maze wrote: > Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. > > However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is still the > > default login manager. Howshall I change the default login manager to > > kdm? > >

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3) update-rc.d -f xdm remove This is arguably bad advice; if xdm ever gets updated (as in a security release), update-rc.d will notice that there are no links for xdm, conclude that the package was never installed, and recreate the links, leaving you back

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Aryan Ameri wrote: > hi there: > > I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. > However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is still the > default login manager. Howshall I change the default login manager to > kdm? 1) Install kdm 2)

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread Gee Law
dpkg-reconfigure xdm or dpkg-reconfigure kdm works for me. don't know if that's the 'proper' way though. Gee. On 2003.01.20 14:35 Aryan Ameri wrote: hi there: I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is st

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. > However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is still the > default login manager. Howshall I change the default login manager to > kdm? The most straightforward thing to

Re: Default Login

1999-02-08 Thread John Hasler
Gaikwad, Arun writes: > We are using Debian/GNU LInux 1.2. Very obsolete. > What are the default Logins? If you mean default passwords, there are none. Your root account has whatever password the person who installed the system gave it unless it has been changed since. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PR

RE: Default Login

1999-02-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Feb-99 Gaikwad, Arun wrote: > We are using Debian/GNU LInux 1.2. > What are the default Logins?. > We need to make sure they are changed on our machine. If you mean "users" the only one worth caring about is root. Which the initial install has you change. The rest are users that exist to