Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!rws From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: using .login under xdm Message-ID: <9008291413.AA09697@expire.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 29 Aug 90 14:13:02 GMT References: Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 I've haven't followed the thread of this, but ... No matter what you call it, xdm handles a person logging in yet makes it impossible to use the .login file. My .xsession sources my .login. I'm happy. Perhaps you have a different definition of "use". Perhaps you could explain this definition in more detail. Any situation which allows the reading of .login doesn't allow for checking envar's or using stty and such. Please explain each of these individually in more detail (and elaborate "and such"). Using stty outside the context of a terminal emulator with a pty seems pretty uninteresting to me. If xdm wants to act like a login shell make it act like a login shell instead of only doing half the job. xdm does not act like a login shell. xdm provides login authentication and means for running a session. One of the things you can start up in your session is a shell.