Folk,

"which login" tell me immediately that the familiar command line
authentication is done by /bin/login.

xdm.man refers to "The xlogin widget, which xdm presents ...".
Good, but what program is it exactly? There is no name on the GUI.

And where is this "widget" invoked?

Thanks for any ideas, ... Peter E.

http://carnot.yi.org/



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On Jan 29, 2008 2:39 AM, PETER EASTHOPE <peasthope@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Folk,
>
> "which login" tell me immediately that the familiar command line
> authentication is done by /bin/login.
>
> xdm.man refers to "The xlogin widget, which xdm presents ...".
> Good, but what program is it exactly? There is no name on the GUI.
>
xlogin should be the program that offer the GUI login screen of xdm
(if you installed xdm).

> And where is this "widget" invoked?
>
I think if you install xdm via apt-get with x server installed, it
will be automatically invoked from one of the x server startup script.

Chris


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