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- From: lgt1@ohm.york.ac.uk (Laurence Tyler (Guest - CompServ))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Pandora - alternate images?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.202831.10895@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 20:28:31 GMT
- Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
- Lines: 34
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- Hi, folks... Here are two rather unimportant and low-priority
- problems I've been having with Pandora:
-
- I've just upgraded to 4.0.5 and had to turn off pandora's icon login
- option. Why? Because I cannot duplicate the old behaviour of only
- showing a few selected user icons on each Indigo. Before, pandora
- would show icons only for explicit entries in /etc/passwd, so I
- could tailor the display for each workstation whilst still allowing
- others to log in via the '+' entry at the end.
-
- Now pandora looks through all the NIS entries as well, and I can't
- stop it. As we have *lots* of users, this takes a rather long time
- and creates a humungously big login icon box (and no, we don't use
- automounter). The new options to ignore users with specific homedir
- paths is no good because there isn't a /allow switch as well, and
- anyway I would like to select an arbitrary subset of users by name.
-
- Any neat way round this? Ideally, a switch or configuration option
- to set the behaviour would be nice...
-
- Now that I'm using the 'noiconlogin' option instead, the second
- problem I have come across is that there isn't a (documented) way
- to override the pandora image file name, which seems to be hard-coded
- as '/usr/demos/data/images/pandora.rgb'. Sadly, we have /usr/demos
- mounted on a file server to save disk space on the workstations, so
- all the workstations get the same picture (and even a symlink won't
- help). I would like them to be different.
-
- Anyone know of some way of changing this, short pf patching the
- executable? I'm sure there must be some X-resource or environment
- variable that will do the trick...
-
- Laurence Tyler
- York University Computing Service, UK
-