[ale] Graphical Login

[frank zamenski]

At 12:04 AM 2/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Michael B Golden wrote:
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>> 	I have read that xdm can allow graphical login, but I tried it,
>
>> and I don't like it. I have also heard that KDE has something similar
>> called kdm. I haven't tried that one yet, so I don't know what it is
>> like. I was wondering if there is anything more similar to the login box
>> of Win9X that I can use. I just like the look, not necessarily the rest
>> of the OS or the insecurity associated with Win9X login. Any ideas?
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>	If you've ever seen the login screen of a Solaris box, you've
>pretty much seen KDM. KDM gives a username/password prompt with buttons to
>select which "session" you want (ie KDE, failsafe, fvwm, etc), whether to
                                    ^^^^^ ummm, I think that's CDE, isn't
it? Not that I'm nit-pickin' here. :)

Frank

>clear the login box etc.
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>	IMHO, "out of the box", KDM is not the most secure thing in the
>world, but the easiest to configure that I've seen. By default, KDM
>presents you with a list of user "icons" to click (instead of typing in
>your login name), and the option to have a "shut down" button on the box
>too (which is supposed to only show up on the console login). Fortunately
>though, these options can be disabled through the KDM configuration gui.
>:) 
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>
>							- Mike
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>Michael Kachline - CS, Georgia Tech
>kachline at cc.gatech.edu
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