[1023] in testers
xlogin vs. xdm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 6 12:03:25 1990
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 90 12:02:57 -0400
From: "Barr3y Jaspan" <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU, software-suggestions@MIT.EDU
From a recent testers meeting transaction:
>> It is obvious that when mar reimplements xlogin...
Why is Athena wasting it's time reimplementing xlogin when a perfectly
good alternative, xdm, exists? Perhaps people are still afraid of it
because it didn't work very well when Athena last looked at it, but
currently it is very reliable. I have patches to "Athena-ize" it (as
I believe jfc does); my patches handle the following:
o kerberos tickets
o hesiod for passwd information
o hesiod for filsys information
o hesiod for group information (modified /etc/group)
o /etc/nocreate, /etc/noattach
o other things I am probably forgetting
Barr3y
