samborn@sunrise.com (Kevin Samborn) (01/28/91)
We have been using the MIT sample server on a SPARCstation 1 with SunOS 4.0.3 for some time, and execution has been fine. However, recently, it has become desirable to switch to the server Sun ships (Xnews) with OpenWindows 2.0. I have heard rumors that it is not completely compatible with xdm. Is there truth to this? Also, what other idiosyncrasies does Xnews have? In addition , one other thing. Has anyone ever noticed a problem with xview clients taking focus when SetInput is set to followmouse? I have tried all different resources to make it work, but my xview clients will just not take focus until I click on them. These are the resources I have tried: xview.icccmcompliant, OpenWindows.SetInput, OpenWindows.FocusLenience. None worked. thanks. -- kevin samborn samborn@sunrise.com ...!uunet!ezx!samborn
arutherf@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford) (02/26/91)
In article <91056.101249ONM29@DMSWWU1A.BITNET> ONM29@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Frank Wuebbeling) writes: >For some time, we used Sun's Xnews and xdm on a SUN 3. However, we were Same here ... a 3/50 w 4Megs (touch slow :-) [ ... some stuff deleted ... ] >started Xnews. So, with xdm, all postscript-processes are in fact run by >xdm, who in turn has root privileges. > >So, all user-postscript-processes were actually run by root which was >unacceptable, as postscript has the ability to read and write files. [ ... rest deleted ] Simple! In your Xservers entry, change the name of the server to a shell script, which calls su <some fake user> $OPENWINHOME/bin/xnews $* This was the way I did it. The only thing you have to be careful of is that the fake user has permission to read/write the Xauthority file. -- Andrew Rutherford arutherf@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au +61 8 228 4782 Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and Room 1069, Adelaide Uni Halloween because OCT 31 == DEC 25 !