Re: Display managers fail since latest upgrade to Lenny

2008-04-03 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Joost Witteveen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 03/04/2008, Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> Since I last upgraded my Lenny box, both xdm and gdm silently fail to >> start at boot time. >> >> Actually, something in each of their init scripts fails and they are >>

Re: Display managers fail since latest upgrade to Lenny

2008-04-03 Thread Joost Witteveen
On 03/04/2008, Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Since I last upgraded my Lenny box, both xdm and gdm silently fail to > start at boot time. > > Actually, something in each of their init scripts fails and they are > never actually called. you could type sh -x /etc/in

Re: display managers and kerberos5

2001-09-30 Thread Martin Maciaszek
--On Saturday, September 29, 2001 03:12:47 PM +0300 Serafim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] What you need is PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module), a layer between the application (in your case *dm) and the underlying authentication system. Depending on the authentication[0] re

Re: display managers and kerberos5

2001-09-29 Thread Serafim Zanikolas
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:41:50AM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > Is there some way to tell xdm/gdm/${WHATEVER}dm to authenticate against a > KDC and request a TGT on login? Hello Martin! What you need is PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module), a layer between the application (in your cas

Re: Display managers

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:22:50PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > What's the surgeon-general-approved way of disabling a display-manager (e.g. > kdm, gdm, xdm)? I know I could just delete the relevant symlinks from > /etc/rc*.d, but I have a feeling that package upgrades and

Re: Display managers

2001-07-23 Thread Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:22:50PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > What's the surgeon-general-approved way of disabling a display-manager (e.g. > kdm, gdm, xdm)? I know I could just delete the relevant symlinks from > /etc/rc*.d, but I have a feeling that package upgrades and things like that > will

Re: Display managers

2001-07-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
Even though I've never done it, I think you could remove all the symlinks in the /etc/rc*.d dirs except for /etc/rc6.d and then it wouldn't restore them on an upgrade, and the rc6.d is for shutdown. So it shouldn't do anything wrong leaving that one there. They can be removed with 'update-r

Re: Display managers

2001-07-23 Thread ktb
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:22:50PM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > What's the surgeon-general-approved way of disabling a display-manager (e.g. > kdm, gdm, xdm)? I know I could just delete the relevant symlinks from > /etc/rc*.d, but I have a feeling that package upgrades and things like that > will