From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu Jan 22 07:22:11 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21230
          for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 07:22:11 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21215
          for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 07:22:08 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu)
Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost)
	by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA10739;
	Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:22:01 -0500 (EST)
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.
In-Reply-To: <199801221454.JAA12582@tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980122101508.8321D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk

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