Ken Archer wrote:
> Xdm (generic), kdm (KDE) and gdm (gnome) all provide another level of security,
> but my original question was about doing away with any of the login managers.
> Once you have setup Mandrake to launch X and go directly to a gui, the default
> is to bring up Kdm. Now I would rather go directly to a consol screen and
> then, using "startx" go directly to my window manager of choice as set up in
> ~/.xinitrc. What I can't find is the file to edit to take kdm out of the
> process.
>
If you're using KDE, then check through the online HELP available in the
KDE desktop. I remember reading about switching gdm for kdm and then doing the
reverse, when I first installed KDE, but don't recall what the commands were. There
should be documentation through KDE Help, which should be accessible through at least
the KDE K menu.
However, I seem to also recall reading about some gui login manager which allows
choosing which wm to login to. Am not sure where you'ld find the documentation on
this, but if a gui login provides enhanced security, then maybe you'll want to search
for this info, before switching modes.
If you definitely want to switch to console login, then another thing you can try is
looking through the configuration files under /etc. Maybe this would be defined in a
file in the /etc/rc.d directory or one of the subdirectories, perhaps the
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file, or /etc/rc.d/init.d/{some-file}, or some other file under
/etc/rc.d. Might also be in some file in /etc. I don't think it'ld be under
/etc/X11/, but may be.
I've resolved a number of problems and performed tasks by learning this way;
therefore, it's definitely do-able, and sometimes faster than asking in a mailing
list.
You should have some configuration howto for the Mandrake distribution, or Linux in
general. Take a quick look through these HOWTOs. I think that the ones for
configuring linux aren't bad.
mike
> Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
> >
> > > Mike Corbeil wrote:
> > >
> >
> > [snipped]
> >
> > > Not the same thing. To use the graphical login, you _have to_
> > > be _booting_ in graphical mode, i.e. you have to configure
> > > init to start directly in graphical mode.
> >
> > > In your current situation, if you get a text login, it's
> > > because your init is configured that way, and so you don't
> > > use *dm. You probably can find some *getty in ps output.
> >
> > Exactly. There are no *dm instances in the output of
> >
> > ps aux
> >
> > but there are several *getty running.
> >
> > This is fine with me, though. The only condition I'ld see as important to use
> > *dm would be if it provided increased or enhanced security, but I don't know
> > enough about these, yet, to be able to say.
> >
> > Do *dm provide enhanced security, or just a fancier login interface?
> >
> > I should try them just to see what the gui's look like, albeit probably
> > something like on Solaris and gui or character doesn't make any difference; only
> > gui looking prettier. If there's a security difference, though, then a la gui
> > login I'll switch to.
> >
> > mike
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