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Re: O2 reinstall problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett David Rosen)
Mon Dec 8 17:46:40 1997
To: cfields@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 17:41:20 EST
From: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@MIT.EDU>
>> Also, sometimes when we give the athena root password
>> to the athena login screen, we are immediatly prompted
>> by the xdm login screen before being allowed to proceed.
>
>This is also a bug under Irix 5.3. I haven't had time to track it down
>yet. I've been able to reproduce it so far only but logging in as root
>twice in a short period of time.
>
>Craig
Isn't this caused by elmer falling back to xdm to enable
root logins? (when xlogin fails and uid equals 0 )
The following shows up in /var/adm/SYSLOG when this happens:
Dec 8 15:34:21 3B:dale nanny[566]: console died: exited with status 1
Dec 8 15:34:24 5E:dale xdm[13741]: root on :0
Dec 8 15:34:24 6B:dale Xsession: root: login
Dec 8 15:34:24 6B:dale nanny[566]: request: LOGGED_IN=TRUE ...
Dec 8 15:34:24 6B:dale nanny[566]: reply: LOGGED_IN=USER not set ...
Dec 8 15:34:24 6B:dale nanny[566]: request: USER=root ...
Dec 8 15:34:24 6B:dale nanny[566]: reply: USER=OK ...
Dec 8 15:34:25 6B:dale nanny[566]: request: LOGGED_IN=TRUE ...
Dec 8 15:34:25 6B:dale nanny[566]: reply: LOGGED_IN=logged in ...
It looks like part of this problem is caused by elmer trying
to log root in before nanny has been given the USER variable.
Brett
