[226] in testers
More on root login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 9 09:35:58 1989
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 09:35:36 -0400
From: Ilhamuddin Ahmed <ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Robert S. French"'s message of Wed, 9 Aug 89 09:24:10 EDT <8908091324.AA00208@QUICKSILVER.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Rob> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 09:24:10 EDT
Rob> From: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Rob> Sender: rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Rob> I won't even begin to expound on how much I've been screwed by the new
Rob> dot files, but one behavior pattern is definitely wrong:
Rob> If you login as root, you get a nice /Mail directory created for you.
Rob> This seems a little excessive. I'm not really convinced that logging
Rob> in as root should do nearly as much as it does (start zwgc, start uwm,
Rob> etc.)
Maybe we should have a /.xsession on workstations which does a very
minimal thing. At the moment, if you select default login, and an
.xsession is *not* in your home-dir, then it will execute the global
xsession file .... kindof inappropriate in "root"'s case.
Rob> Oh yes, and since the login xterm no longer runs a login shell, root's
Rob> terminal is never set up properly since the "stty dec" is in /.login.
stty dec is done in the global cshrc. Once people update they dotfiles,
then all will be fine. In default startup, it tries to execute the users
.cshrc.
This brings up the point of updating all the dot files for root
otherwise X Window login with root will break.
