On 20020223 Martin Mačok wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:16:21PM -0800, garrick wrote:
>> KDM actually handles all of those face icons surprisingly well.
>
>> I can disable it in the KDE Control Center, and I see the changes
>> made to /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.  But somehow that feature keeps
>> getting reenabled when I reboot.  Perhaps there's a particular
>> package I can uninstall?
>
>msec is doing that job (and I don't know why). Either uninstall it
>(and uncomment PATH line in /etc/profile) or setup it to not do it (I
>don't know if that's possible) or delete /etc/cron.*/msec symlinks and
>make sure to do it everytime you upgrade msec or initscripts or after
>running msec by hand.
>

That way you kill all msec periodic checks.

Easier:

--- /usr/share/msec/msec.py.orig        Sat Feb 23 15:13:02 2002
+++ /usr/share/msec/msec.py     Sat Feb 23 02:07:57 2002
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
     set_shell_history_size(-1)
     allow_root_login(1)
     enable_sulogin(0)
-    allow_user_list(1)
+    allow_user_list(0)
     enable_promisc_check(0)
     accept_icmp_echo(1)
     accept_bogus_error_responses(1)

But that is just a workaround, it will be needed to check exactly what
msec is doing...
I will try to find time to take a look.

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