[14713] in Athena Bugs
Re: 8.0J sparc: login doesn't do logindevperm(4)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Sun Sep 29 22:50:36 1996
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:50:33 -0400
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
To: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
> The long and short of this is you cannot hit ^P ffrom xlogin to get a
> console login, login, and start the X server by hand. Instead you
> need to su to root to do it.
I'm not really convinced this is all that important.
However, this may be taken as a disadvantage of not trying to
integrate well with what the vendor does - you don't get their
features.
> ps: trying to start the X server by hand on an Indy is a trip, too.
> I think I'm not even going to try
Good Lord!
Just FYI, Irix doesn't have a whole lot of support for console mode.
The way they get into it is a bit twisted (see /usr/gfx/stopgfx),
and the way we do it is related. I don't think there's a clean way
to start their X server without throwing out some of their software.
I was actually going to punt doing a console mode until I realized
we really wanted it for updates.
Just a disadvantage of trying to integrate well with what the vendor
does...
> (more doesn't even work right in console mode)
Try "set term=iris-tp". I'm sure I fixed this once.
