Since we're speculating: I do believe that there is an option to xdm to get it to broadcast for X XDMCP servers, and set itself up as an X-Term at boot up. So the login banner would either be a list of XDMCP servers on the network, or, you could hard-wire it to go to a specific server, and get the login from there.
I've done this a lot with X-Terms. I believe it can also be done with Linux. You'd want to look at xdm, and it's setup files. ric Terry Mathews wrote: > > I think you could to it in console mode too. If we are dealing with an > ethernet connection, methinks that passing "linux init=telnet x.x.x.x" to > LILO would make the machine come up to the other computer's login prompt. > Although this requires that the ethernet come up as part of the system init, > not as a SysV startup script... > > Terry > > Yeah, this is possible. He's talking about a dumb terminal, (or an > > X-Term as they're called). > > Not the xterm (terminal window) within X. > > I suppose it would be possible to set up a cheap PC, as a dumb X-Term, > > and use it that way without actually loggin in to the PC. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/
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