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- From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Service Accounts running X login
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.145415.6557@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 13:54:14 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.152709.23868@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- In article <1992Aug25.152709.23868@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, chris@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Christian Finger) writes:
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- -- Are there any possibilities to control the actions of some special accounts
- -- after the X window login ?
-
- Yes, you have to hack the XDM session startup scripts and test for the
- specific user names.
-
- -- Btw, is it possible for an user logged into the console in character mode
- -- to start an X window enviroment ? Someting like startx ?
-
- Yes, but it is a real pain, as on the DECstation (ours at least) Xws will
- not run under user's uid, so you have to write an suid wrapper for it.
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- I know this does not help much. Thomas
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