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I've just make available a new version of dtautologin, an alternative
to dtlogin, that automatically starts up a complete CDE session on a
workstation console without requiring the session owner to log in and
supply a password. It's most useful in secure environments, where only
authorized people have access to the console, for monitoring and
control applications.

See http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/source for more information.

This version is more reliable, and is a more accurate replica
of dtlogin.

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-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-

Gary,

This is a nice little package, thanks! What would it take to get it to work
more like dtlogin in that dtlogin detects that the user prefers olwm instead
of CDE ?  In other words, the user logs in via the CDE "Welcome to hostname"
but gets the OpenLook graphical environment instead. It seems to key on
the contents of $HOME/.dt/sessions/lastsession .

I have a machine that dtautologin would be perfect for, but the user I need
it to autologin needs to use Open Look.

P.S. Thanks for ntp, too!  :)

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Quote:> Gary,
> This is a nice little package, thanks!

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Quote:> P.S. Thanks for ntp, too!  :)

Gary vs. Dave?  :-)

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Quote:>This is a nice little package, thanks! What would it take to get it to work
>more like dtlogin in that dtlogin detects that the user prefers olwm instead
>of CDE ?  In other words, the user logs in via the CDE "Welcome to hostname"
>but gets the OpenLook graphical environment instead. It seems to key on
>the contents of $HOME/.dt/sessions/lastsession .

I have no idea, but it should not be too difficult.  I'm sure that somebody
could do it.  Did you know that Sun has dropped OpenLook as of Solaris 9?

Quote:>P.S. Thanks for ntp, too!  :)

That's my cousin Dave. ;)  We are in different countries, too.

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-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-

|I have a machine that dtautologin would be perfect for, but the user I need
|it to autologin needs to use Open Look.

So why not simply run /usr/openwin/bin/openwin as that user?  (And why
do they need to use Open Look?  They won't be able to run on Solaris
9 or later...)

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OK. I may take a stab at it myself, but I will have to setup a test machine;
I can't use this particular machine as a testbed.

I realize that somewhere in there you just need to run $OPENWINHOME/openwin,
but the devil's in the details, and I thought it possible that someone had
already given it some thought.

Quote:> Did you know that Sun has dropped OpenLook as of Solaris 9?

WHAT?  :)  Yes, I know. Hey, this machine is at Solaris 2.6 - it may be
awhile before it makes it even to 8 (they're being adventurous and skipping
7 - whoo!) .

Actually, it's not really a Openlook-only issue - in general, wouldn't
the manual (stock, without your script) dtlogin honor the lastsession idea?
I mean, you could have Gnome, KDE, Openwin, etc. as possible session types.
The autodtlogin might ought to login the user with the last session type just
like regular dtlogin, don't you think?

Quote:> >P.S. Thanks for ntp, too!  :)

> That's my cousin Dave. ;)  We are in different countries, too.

Oops.  :}  I had been configuring some machines for ntp earlier that day;
that must be why I made the slip.

Thanks!

Griff