Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!pacbell.com!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker!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: <9008311228.AA11712@expire.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 31 Aug 90 12:28:43 GMT References: Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 by sourcing a .login file, I mean being able to use something besides 'setenv' in that file. Checking the values of envars and using stty to set up default control sequences are very important to those of us who use 2byte characters in our non-English-only terminal emulators... I have sent you private mail about ways of doing this. I believe it can be done without changing xdm. If xdm is not a login interface, Reread what I wrote. I said it does not act like a login *shell* (in the sense of how I understand you to interpret the word "shell"). If you want to enforce a particular policy on sessions at your site, I believe xdm will let you do so. I changed these so that the users would quit asking this question. Is xdm distributed with these defaults? Making the default prompt something besides login? No, I wouldn't distribute xdm that way. I wouldn't want to confuse people. :-)