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- From: rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: XOpenDisplay fails when nobody is logged on
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 00:59:26 GMT
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- chen@umiacs.umd.edu (Ling Tony Chen) writes:
- >The problem is that when nobody has logged on to the machine (and xlogin
- >is running) XOpenDisplay fails. Does anybody know if its suppose to be
- >this way ? Is there a way to get around this problem?
-
- This is feature of xdm(1). For security reasons xdm grabs the X
- server for the duration of the name/password reading.
-
- Check out the man page for the xdm resources that control this
- feature.
-
- ...robert
-