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From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Login support from within openlook
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.083938@Unify.com>
Date: 7 Nov 90 16:39:38 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.200631.2753@lia>
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Reply-To: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello)
Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA
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In article <1990Nov6.200631.2753@lia>, karin@lia (Karin Meyer) writes:
 
> We are interested in running an Xview application (requires olwm
> presence)  in such a way that the user could either 
> 
> 	a) login and automatically enter the application.  Exiting
> 	   the application would exit windows.  Ideally they could not
> 	   invoke any other programs from the window manager menu.
> 
> 	or preferably
> 
> 	b) Have windows up and running on a workstation, log in to a 
> 	   window, which then automatically brings up the application.
> 	   Exiting the application would place the user back at the
> 	   login state.  

Sounds like you might be interested in xdm, which is a display 
manager for X.  Essentially, it is forces the user to login to
the system, and enter a password, just like on a character terminal.
Once the login is validated, it runs a session, which in your case,
would require running the window manager, and your application. 
When the seesion is over, xdm will reset the server and allow a
new user to login.  

Unfortunately, to exit the session you will need to kill the
window manager.  I do not know of a way to do this, other than
via a kill -9.

> Thanks,
> 
> 	Karin Meyer
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Greg Pasquariello	
Unify Corporation 	grp@Unify.Com