Re: Multi-line greeting from xdm?
One must be aware of security hole which may be created by runing the
display or xv from Xsetup_0 (it will run with root uid !).
On my machine I use the xmessage for this purpose, which is much safer...
(I hope :-).
Wojtek Zabolotny
wzab@ipe.pw.edu.pl
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 05:37:37PM +0100, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> > An easy way I could think of is to make a picture of this message (pcx,
> > bitmap, gif, whatever), and run a program like display or xv to put it
> > on the screen in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions.
>
> I ended up using xpaint to render the text to a .xbm file, and I use
> xsetroot to load it. I also had to nudge the login window down a bit.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
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