[177] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: X11R4 XDM authentication and/or additional documentation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scanner)
Wed Jun 26 16:42:50 1991
To: cball@bu-it.bu.edu
Cc: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 91 14:51:44 EDT."
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 15:56:57 -0400
From: Scanner <scanner@rpi.edu>
> Has anyone out there implemented a X11R4 XDM which does
> AFS/Kerberos authentication?
I have been slowly re-writing X11R4 XDM for a while.
One of the recent set of changes was to have XDM call "klog" as part
of the verify step. This gives behavior similar to the Transarc login
where if the klog fails it back off and try regular unix
authentication.
Current I kludge the "pagsh" stuff since you can't get source to
"pagsh" by just running xdm under via the undocumented "-c" option for
pagsh. This only works if each "xdm" is only managing one display. If
it manages more than one display then you'll have to wait for one of
my next xdm changes which runs each display-manager under a new pag.
I'm clearly working around deficiencies for lack of source to creating
a PAG.
You may have our version of xdm if you want it, but it's not yet a
finished thing (although we may be using it in production here.. B-)
all my changes are not documented)
If you are interested contact me privately via email and I can
probably discouse at mild-length on all the changes and design
decisions.
--Scanner (scanner@rpi.edu)
