bmc@MYCROFT.MAYO.EDU (11/30/90)
Having setup a Sun 3/50 as an X terminal and using Xdm as the login prompter, I get a message "This is an unsecure session" in the login widget. How does one go about eliminating it and what does it mean? I am also looking for a lockscreen program that will run as a deamon (should lock the screen after x minutes of inactivity) and run under X. Does anyone know of such a beast available via anonymous ftp? Many thanks --Bruce ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce M. Cameron bmc@mayo.edu Biotechnology Computing Resource (507) 284-3288 Medical Sciences 1-14 Mayo Foundation Rochester, MN 55960 WD9CKW -----------------------------------------------------------------
melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) (12/02/90)
This was discussed on one of the newsgroups over here. If Xdm is running
on a platform that does not support XDMCP, it will display the "unsecure
session" message. It should work fine, for example, on X11R4. One thing
you might want to do is change the unsecure session message in your
.Xdefaults file, as follows:
xlogin.Login.unsecureGreeting: "Welcome to X"
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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limted, Machida, Japan
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{uunet,ubvax}!fai!fgw!yk.fujitsu.co.jp!melbymouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (12/03/90)
> Having setup a Sun 3/50 as an X terminal and using Xdm as the login > prompter, I get a message "This is an unsecure session" in the login > widget. How does one go about eliminating it and what does it mean? I'm not entirely certain what it means, though I would assume that it means that xdm has for some reason decided it can't run the session as securely as it would like. I found that it went away when I added DisplayManager*authorize: false to the xdm-config file. This may be overkill for you. (Suggestions freely offered and probably worth what you paid. :-) > I am also looking for a lockscreen program that will run as a deamon > (should lock the screen after x minutes of inactivity) and run under > X. Does anyone know of such a beast available via anonymous ftp? The core X protocol does not provide sufficient support to do such a thing in any reasonable way, though there seems to me that it might be possible to kludge something with grabs. I seem to recall hearing of an extension (the name "XIDLE" comes to mind) that addresses the problem; I have not tried any such. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
bmc@mycroft.mayo.EDU (12/03/90)
Thanks for the information. I'll give your suggestion about xdm. If you hear anything more about that extension, I'd appreciate it if you'd pass the info along. I'd rather not kludge something together. --Bruce
len@mel.dit.csiro.au (Len Makin) (12/05/90)
In article <9011292309.AA04319@mycroft.mayo.edu>, bmc@MYCROFT.MAYO.EDU writes: |> |> Having setup a Sun 3/50 as an X terminal and using Xdm as the |> login prompter, I get a message "This is an unsecure session" |> in the login widget. How does one go about eliminating it and Put the following in your xdm-config file: DisplayManager*authorize: False |> what does it mean? RTFM (man xdm) DisplayManager.DISPLAY.authorize DisplayManager.DISPLAY.authName authorize is a boolean resource which controls whether xdm generates and uses authorization for the server connections. If authorization is used, authName speci- fies the type to use. Currently, xdm supports only MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authorization, XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 could be supported as well, but DES is not generally distributable. XDMCP connections specify which author- ization types are supported dynamically, so authName is ignored in this case. When authorize is set for a display and authorization is not available, the user is informed by having a different message displayed in the login widget. By default, authorize is "true"; auth- Name is "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1". DisplayManager.DISPLAY.authFile" This file is used to communicate the authorization data |> |> ----------------------------------------------------------------- |> Bruce M. Cameron bmc@mayo.edu |> Biotechnology Computing Resource (507) 284-3288 |> Medical Sciences 1-14 |> Mayo Foundation |> Rochester, MN 55960 WD9CKW |> ----------------------------------------------------------------- Len Makin Monash University College, Gippsland len@giaea.oz.au (Temporarily on leave at CSIRO DIT (Melbourne)). len@mel.dit.csiro.au