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From: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  2 queries: Xdm & lockscreen
Message-ID: <9012031358.AA01073@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 3 Dec 90 13:58:11 GMT
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> Having setup a Sun 3/50 as an X terminal and using Xdm as the login
> prompter, I get a message "This is an unsecure session" in the login
> widget.  How does one go about eliminating it and what does it mean?

I'm not entirely certain what it means, though I would assume that it
means that xdm has for some reason decided it can't run the session as
securely as it would like.

I found that it went away when I added

DisplayManager*authorize:	false

to the xdm-config file.  This may be overkill for you.  (Suggestions
freely offered and probably worth what you paid. :-)

> I am also looking for a lockscreen program that will run as a deamon
> (should lock the screen after x minutes of inactivity) and run under
> X.  Does anyone know of such a beast available via anonymous ftp?

The core X protocol does not provide sufficient support to do such a
thing in any reasonable way, though there seems to me that it might be
possible to kludge something with grabs.  I seem to recall hearing of
an extension (the name "XIDLE" comes to mind) that addresses the
problem; I have not tried any such.

					der Mouse

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