Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:22:01 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Ted Buswell <tbuswell@mediaone.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm & login.conf limits. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980122101508.8321D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801221454.JAA12582@tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net>
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Ted Buswell wrote: > A couple of days ago, there was some discussion of problems stemming > from the fact that logging in via XDM didn't result in the same > set of user limits that you get when logging in via a console. > > I've written a simple patch to apply to the XFree86 3.3.1 source > for xdm which remedies that [uses setusercontext()]. The XFree86 in the ports collection already has a ptach for this. Unfortunately, that patch does not set the environment variables specified in login.conf. If your patch does that, I'd be quite happy. :) -john
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