Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:44:33 +1000 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d problem Message-ID: <19970512224433.64758@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199704290713.RAA29511@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>; from David Nugent on Tue, Apr 29, 1997 at 05:13:55PM %2B1000 References: <19970428170203.28285@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199704290713.RAA29511@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 1997 at 05:13:55PM +1000, David Nugent wrote: >> I have no idea. I don't recall seeing any patches for this being >> submitted to us at XFree86.Org. I don't have any machines running >> -current at the moment. > >Ok. I thought I saw some comment that some "basic" support had been >added, but perhaps not. This would be fairly easy to do, so I'll >send diffs<tm> as soon as I can make some time. Basically all that's >needed is to change setlogin()/setuid()/initgroups() to a >setusercontext() call, but depending on the environment this can >get kind of hairy. setusercontext() does all sorts of things in >addition to that, including setting resource limits and system, >umask and user-defined environment settings (and soon, user-defined >resource limits, within the administrative hard limits). > > >> I'd also like to see something that allows us to remove the direct >> utmp/wtmp manipulation from xdm and xterm. > >Well, even if the wtmp/utmp format is not revised today as we've >tentatively planned in FreeBSD, there's no reason why we can't at >least provide an API. Is any of this likely to be ready in the next week or so? I'm asking because we'll be finalising the XFree86 3.3 release *very* soon, and if any of these things are ready they could be included in that release. David
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