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Re: X authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Fri Feb 10 19:11:24 1995
To: newsham@aloha.net (Timothy Newsham)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net (BugTraq Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: Message from newsham@aloha.net of 9 Feb 95 10:52:04 -1000
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 17:40:00 EST
From: Stephen Gildea <gildea@x.org>
> I don't want to run xdm (I like logging in on an
> ascii console at times).
The easiest solution might be to run xdm anyway. You can type C-r at
the login window to shut down xdm on that display, and then you can
log in without X. Send xdm a HUP signal when you want it to start
managing that display again.
The C-r binding might not be in your translations; it was only added
to the default in R6. If necessary, edit xdm's Xresources file to
include something like this:
xlogin*login.translations: #override\
Ctrl<Key>R: abort-display()\n\
Ctrl<Key>Return: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\
<Key>Return: set-session-argument() finish-field()
All of this is covered in more detail in the xdm(1) manual page.
< Stephen
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