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From: lacsap@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: changing login panel
Keywords: login
Message-ID: <1547@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 5 Feb 90 00:09:28 GMT
References: <42814@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: lacsap@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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You do not want to edit the default login panel nextlogin.tiff, but rather
you want to create your own login panel and as root do a 

dwrite loginwindow ImageFile mylogin.tiff

The other alternative is to add it to /etc/ttys, but doing this will cause
a bug to show up in that the person loggin into console will never appear
in /etc/utmp...

In .8 I replaced the login panel, then someone at NeXT figured out that
people would do this, so now there is an easy facility to do this. The
tiff files can be 4bit per pel, the NeXT will happily half tone it. The
only thing to be sensitive of is that loginwindow will put in white stripes
for the password and username... This is all documented online (I forget
where)

pasc
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Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group
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