Re: XDM

[Peter Bartosch <lead@gmx.de>]

Hi!


> On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Frederic Breitwieser wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > My last question/issue/problem is I didn't answer "yes" to making XDM the
> > default logon prompt, therefore one must sign onto the box in text mode,
> > then type "XDM" then sign on again.  The first signon must be root.
> > 
> > Is there anyway of changing this as to make the box ALWAYS come up with XDM
> > as the default logon ?
> > 
> > I kinda like single sign on :)
> 
> Go to /etc/X11/config and uncomment the last line that says 
> #start-xdm
> 
> This will automaticly start xdm on the login.
> Also, make sure that there is a symbolic link to execute xdm
> in /etc/rcX.d , where X is a runlevel number.
> (link should be present in all of them and look like this
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           13 Nov  1 17:25 S99xdm ->
> ../init.d/xdm)
> Andrew

and don´t forget to comment the no-start-xdm line, if there´s any


and no, this doesn´t affect telnetting to your box 


peter


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