Re: Problems with redhat 6 Xsession and pam.d/rlogin.

From: Ari Gordon-Schlosberg (regsat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 20 1999 - 16:51:39 PDT

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    [David Malone <dwmaloneat_private>]
    > I've found two problems which seem to be present in RedHat 6.0 and RedHat 6.1.
    > They're not earthshatteringly bad, but...
    >
    > 	1) Xsession on RedHat will start kde, gnome or anotherlevel
    > 	rather than running a user's .xsession file, if you choose
    > 	one of these from kdm. This is bad if you have account
    > 	which have a special shell and xsession which are supposed
    > 	to only allow one use of the account.
    >
    > 	Maybe it would be sensible to check a user has a shell listed
    > 	in /etc/shells before starting a kde, gnome or anoterlevel
    > 	session for them.
    
    This issue is fixed in RedHat 6.1, where gdm (the xdm replacement) will run
    the user's .xsession rather than gnome or kde.
    
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