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Bug#303392: kdm: records each login twice in utmp/wtmp



On April 7, 2005 10:32, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> While I was doing this, I noticed the file /etc/kde3/kdm/kdm.options for
> the first time.  This little file has just three options, one of which is
> (no-)use-sessreg.  It has a man page (kdm.options(5)), but the man page
> doesn't say what happens when kdm.options conflicts with kdmrc.  In my
> case I didn't have anything about UseSessReg in kdmrc, but kdm.options
> included use-sessreg.  Now I put UseSessReg=false in kdmrc, and this
> seems to override use-sessreg in kdm.options.  Confusing, but anyway the
> problem is solved now. Thanks for your help.

That stuff you stumbled upon was the original, pre-KDE 3.4 sessreg control. 
For KDE 3.4, built-in sessreg was added to KDM. UseSessReg=false disables 
the built-in sessreg, since the older sessreg method (which we still use) 
gives us more control. I forgot to disable the built-in sessreg in earlier 
3.4 uploads, hence the "registered twice" problem.

Cheers,
Christopher Martin

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