Re: Displaying Output on xdm login screen
On 25 Nov 2002, 21:43:56, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:58:53PM +0000, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> > BTW - I figured it out - put the command in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup . . .=20
>
> xdm probably runs as root, so you'll want to be careful with what you
> run on the login screen, since anyone who walks up to your machine will
> fairly trivially be able to get root access.
Thanks for the tip. I thought about that, and all I'm running, in addition
to xconsole, is gkrellm with the -nc (non-configurable) switch.
I have no way to physically secure the system, and they wanted an easy way
to tell if it was up. So running gkrellm as root on the xdm display is safer
than leaving an account logged in and running gkrellm on that user's desktop.
A couple of questions:
1. Do any of the various xdm replacements (gdm, et. al.) not run as root?
2. Could I run this instantiation of gkrellm as an ordinary user and have
it display on the root xdm (or gdm or whatever) login window?
TIA
madmac
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Doug MacFarlane
madmac@covad.net
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