[2377] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Xlogin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 9 12:32:45 1992
From: mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 92 12:32:10 EST
> I've made some small changes to the xlogin resources that add
>a menu option to run /usr/ucb/w in an xterm without logging in, ...
1) bug-sipb is probably the wrong place for this; an xlogin suggestion
isn't really a bug report about SIPB software.
2) I don't think it's useful. I think it's sad if anyone has to regard
an office workstation as unusable due to excessive remote logins. As I
understand it, the SIPB office is still supposed to be a workstation
environment, not a collection of timesharing machines.
If there are 4 people already logged in, and they're each occasionally
sending a zephyr message or reading a discuss transaction, this won't
necessarily have a noticeable degradation on a local session. If
they're doing a lot more than this, or you need to be the only user
(e.g., because you want to patch the running kernel or something),
then you should ask them to log out.
If you can't have other people simultaneously logged in, at all, then
you have to prevent remote logins during the process of your local
login. A prior /usr/ucb/w won't help with this.
If there's sufficient remote use that the process of logging in is
significantly slowed down, I think we have bigger problems than a
dearth of xlogin options.
Matt
