Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:13:28 -0800 From: William Richard <wdr@tdl.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XDM catch 22 Message-ID: <389F89D8.39F8E62D@tdl.com> References: <s89e7918.012@pai-ca.org>
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(Do break your lines at 72 characters or so.) Tom Vollmer wrote: > > I managed to provoke freeBSD into graphical mode before prompting at > the command line for userid and passward by altering the "tty". The > only problem I have now is I can't gain access to the KDE interface. Did you create a file in your home directory called .xsession? If you did, did you make it executable (mode 7XX)? This is problem number one in XDM setups. > This is what I suspect. The line that governs XDM also has a option > for secure/unsecure settings. I left it at secure setting. XDM cares not for the secure/insecure setting in /etc/ttys. XDM handles its authentication through an internal routine, not through getty. That's why you can run it from the /etc/rc scripts as well. > Therefore, when XDM starts and logs me in, KDE, or for that matter any > other process, is not available even to root. It then returns the > user to the XDM interface. Funny thing is that I can't even get to a > command line to run "vi" in order to change the alteration I made. > CATCH 22. Have you tried CTRL-ALT-F1? It's just like ALT-F1, except with a CTRL in front of it. Why, you ask? Because the X server traps ALT-F1 for X clients. You might try the article at <http://www.daemonnews.org/200001/xdm.html>. I think it's an informative article, but I hear the guy who wrote it is a real prick. > I there a procedure for stopping to allow a command line prompt with > the volumes mounted that can be initiated through a "hot key" so I > might be able to change the "tty" file back to it's original state? Eh? > Tom Vollmer Cheers, William Richard wdr@tdl.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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