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From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xdmshell and sessreg
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Date: 20 Feb 90 18:22:18 GMT
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In-Reply-To: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU's message of Mon, 12 Feb 90 21:33:13 GMT

I received the following reply to a message that I posted last week,
and also a request to post it to the net, so here it is:

Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 14:59:49 -0500
From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Bob Scheifler)

In case no one else has answered:

    - Should these programs be installed in /usr/bin/X11?

Not necessarily, since they normally don't normally get run by users.
xdmshell can be installed there, but it normally gets referenced only
in an /etc/passwd entry, so it can be anywhere.  sessreg could just be
installed in your /usr/lib/X11/xdm/ directory, since it's normally only
referenced from Xstartup/Xreset scripts.

    - Is there a man page for xdmshell?

Oops, apparently not.

    - Does anyone have examples of their use?

xdm:<PASSWORD>:11094:40:X Display Manager:/tmp:/etc/xdmshell


#!/bin/sh
#
# Xstartup
#
# This program is run as root after the user is verified
#
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/sessreg -l $DISPLAY -x /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers -a $USER
exit 0


#!/bin/sh
#
# Xreset
#
# This program is run as root after the session terminates but
# before the display is closed
#
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/sessreg -l $DISPLAY -x /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers -d $USER

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Joe Weening                                Computer Science Dept.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU          Stanford University