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Rhapsody Developer Release Notes:
loginwindow

Tese notes are for the loginwindow application of the Rhapsody Developer Release. The loginwindow application is launched at the end of system start-up; it accepts and verifies entered account names and passwords and then starts the applications necessary for the user environment, passing along information about the user. For more information on loginwindow, including system administration and security features, see the loginwindow(8) manual page.

Notes Specific to Developer Release

New Features

The following new features have been added to loginwindow since OPENSTEP 4.2 (NeXT).

• OpenStep conversion: The loginwindow application has been ported from NEXTSTEP 3.3 to use OpenStep APIs. This means that, at log-in time, loginwindow makes mouse, keyboard, and display settings based on the user's new defaults.
  
  
• User environment: The loginwindow application passes default values for the SHELL, USER, and PATH environment variables to the Workspace application. (These values are then inherited by all applications launched by Workspace). In addition, loginwindow sets additional environment variables based on the contents of the file ~/.OpenStep/environment. This file is assumed to be in property list format.
  
  
• Security features: As documented in the manual page, the NSPublicWindowServer user default controls the visibility of the Window Server's port. If this default is not set, only processes descended from the user's Workspace can access it. The loginwindow application now uses this default to control access to other Rhapsody servers, such as the pasteboard and sound servers.
  

Bugs Fixed in Developer Release

These bugs have been fixed in the Developer Release:

47359

Occasionally, the message "bootstrap_register failed - -102" is logged to the console.

52819

If loginwindow fails to find the Window Server or Pasteboard Server, it now logs an appropriate message to the system log.

71443

Logged-in users were occasionally unable to drag objects from one application to another until they logged out and back in.