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From: wes@uh.msc.umn.edu (Wes Barris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Pandora and visual login icons
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Date: 16 Apr 91 18:06:37 GMT
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FACTOID 1:

The standard icons that pandora displays for each user may be replaced
with small images.  These images may be located in one of three places:
$HOME/.4sight/icons/login.icon, /usr/local/lib/faces/$USER, or
/usr/lib/faces/$USER.

FACTOID 2:

The file "/etc/passwd.sgi" contains a list of users.  If the username
is followed by a ":noshow", that user icon will not be shown.

QUESTION:

I do not want pandora to scan all $HOME/.4sight/... directories.  We
have over 100 users whose home directories are on various machines.
This takes tooooooo loooooong.  Instead, I would like to do one of the
following:

1: Remove $HOME/.4sight/icons/login.icon from the search path.

   or

2: Put something like "user:show" in the /etc/passwd file so that only
   these users are searched.

Is there is way to do this?

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