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Re: Problems with redhat 6 Xsession and pam.d/rlogin.
From: regs () NEBCORP COM (Ari Gordon-Schlosberg)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:51:39 -0500
[David Malone <dwmalone () MATHS TCD IE>]
I've found two problems which seem to be present in RedHat 6.0 and RedHat 6.1. They're not earthshatteringly bad, but... 1) Xsession on RedHat will start kde, gnome or anotherlevel rather than running a user's .xsession file, if you choose one of these from kdm. This is bad if you have account which have a special shell and xsession which are supposed to only allow one use of the account. Maybe it would be sensible to check a user has a shell listed in /etc/shells before starting a kde, gnome or anoterlevel session for them.
This issue is fixed in RedHat 6.1, where gdm (the xdm replacement) will run the user's .xsession rather than gnome or kde. -- Ari there is no spoon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nebcorp.com/~regs/pgp for PGP public key
Current thread:
- Problems with redhat 6 Xsession and pam.d/rlogin. David Malone (Oct 07)
- Re: Problems with redhat 6 Xsession and pam.d/rlogin. Ari Gordon-Schlosberg (Oct 20)
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