Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > I agree, we could start xdm in rnlevel 3 and "su someuser startx" in > > runlevel > > 4. > > > Great,I'll keep an eye and try it as soon as it's done.Thanks. > why do you want to wait? ;-) i attached my auto-login script again. now it has the auto-relogin problem nicely solved. if the serve

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Mircea Luca
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 12:33:41PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > > I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin > > would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level.This way the > > sysadmin could specify the default-run level and for one us

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 12:33:41PM +, Mircea Luca wrote: > I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin > would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level.This way the > sysadmin could specify the default-run level and for one user would be > great.It would be ne

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin > would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level. this is not hard to do. you can specify the config file to use with the -config switch. so you could specify a config file with auto-login options and alternatively a "

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Mircea Luca
Hi I'm a regular user and I think it would be really cool if the autologin would/could be implemented as specific to a run-level.This way the sysadmin could specify the default-run level and for one user would be great.It would be neat for a home user since the "admin " part is really happening no

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have this script as /etc/init.d/startmyx. It auto-logs me in on tty9, and > xdm can still run on tty7. > so you have this script and xdm running at the same time. this is not a problem, but i like having everything in one place. > It could be modified to run xdm after startx finishes. > you

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> There is something that I always asked myself about the differnet display > managers. Why do they not handle the login window as an external > application ? you can find something like that on freshmeat ("XDM-External Greet"), but the url is dead ... -( however, the external greeter concept of xd

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I have this script as /etc/init.d/startmyx. It auto-logs me in on tty9, and xdm can still run on tty7. It could be modified to run xdm after startx finishes. So my question is: who really needs a patch to xdm? -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. "Real hackers mostly th

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, > > i became interested in automatic login, too. > > Just a stupid question, why are ppl using xdm in the first place if they > want an auto login? Whats wrong with using startx instead?! > i've written a auto-loging s

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Michel LESPINASSE
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, > i became interested in automatic login, too. so i just implemented it > for xdm, kdm and wdm (wdm not tested). i thought about gdm, too, but it > seems

Re: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, > i became interested in automatic login, too. Just a stupid question, why are ppl using xdm in the first place if they want an auto login? Whats wrong w

RE: annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Bill Barnes
>= Original Message From Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = > > >ps: are there already other implementations of x-based auto-login? ;-/ > libranet.com has done a nice distro of debian 2.2 which includes an auto-login. >pps: please cc me, as i unsubscribed from the lists due to a l

annoucement: auto-login patch for xdm

2000-06-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, due to a relatively popular demand on such a (mis-)feature at debian-user, i became interested in automatic login, too. so i just implemented it for xdm, kdm and wdm (wdm not tested). i thought about gdm, too, but it seems not to be directly b