RA Cohen wrote: [...]
[...]I have been successful in all aspects but one: client logins default to the most basic window mgr (tvwm I think). There are approx. 400 potentiaol users total over 65 workstations (a school environment). How can I make all of them default to KDE without manually going into each and every central home directory to set this? Do I need a Perl sctript to do this? How can I get a new user addition to default to KDE?
There are many ways to achieve this.
As you have all the home folders in a central location, it would be easiest to replace every user's .xsession/.xinitrc files with one calling startkde.
For new users to already have this custom file, place it in /usr/share/skel/ with a name of dot.xinitrc resp. dot.xsession.
But there are other solutions:
One thing to consider is using a graphical login managager like {k,g,x}dm, in case you don't already do so.
{k,g}dm allow the user to chooser their session. Adding new sessions to the list is pretty straightforward - just take a look at gdm.conf resp. kdm.conf files and the respective documentation.
If xdm is used you could modify its Xsession file: remove the part where ~/.xsession is started and simply have it launch kde.
Yet another way would be to simply replace twm with a symlink pointing at the startkde script.
Finally, I suggest you check out cfengine <www.cfengine.org> (also in the ports), which makes central administration of a network quite easy. Cfengine also has macros to easily modify every user's ~/.{xsession,whatever} file.
Additionally, you might want to consider using CVS to keep track of your configuration files (or/and the configuration files of cfengine).
HTH, - Martin _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
