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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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Subject: Re: xdm in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d problem
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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