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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Pandora - alternate images?
- Message-ID: <pqo8988@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 02:40:17 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.202831.10895@ohm.york.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1992Sep13.202831.10895@ohm.york.ac.uk> lgt1@ohm.york.ac.uk (Laurence Tyler (Guest - CompServ)) writes:
- |
- | 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...
-
- See 'man pandora' for both of these. They can be controlled via
- passwd.sgi. It is possible that your old passwd.sgi, is now
- passwd.sgi.O, and you didn't take care of all of the output
- from 'versions changed' after upgrading. (NIS users can be
- excluded if they all have home dirs that don't exist on the system,
- or are NFS mounted in a different place from the local users).
-
- | 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.
-
- Can't be done, unfortunately, without using a binary editor on
- the pandora executable.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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