[739] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Try something new? (was Re: {/bin,/etc}/athena)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Oct 10 21:07:09 1994
To: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Oct 1994 17:45:25 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 21:06:58 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Jim --
The current behavior of xlogin under Linux is the same as the current
Athena behavior. Athena workstations kill and restart the X server
when you log out. One side effect is that it makes sure that your X
clients (xterms, zwgc, etc) die when you log out.
I remember toehold. I changed by dotfiles so that I would start X
myself -- it was faster than waiting for xlogin! Now it kind of
doesn't matter.
OBTW: One reason to keep xlogin on the root is to prevent network
spoofing. You have to go up to each machine to change xlogin, and
hopefully the machine will find this and correct it.
-derek
