Re: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays

2003-07-15 Thread David Fraser
msg wrote: Greetings: Just reporting progress on making a working XDM for Cygwin/XFree86 to manage remote displays: I now have XDM working to provide a greeter dialog, authenticate the 'root' user (who has setuid privs on the host) and spawn the .xsession (in my case startup an rdesktop

RE: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays

2003-07-15 Thread Vince Hoffman
Work remains to to fix authFile (change the colon character to something storeable on the NTFS filesystem) and to add ntsec setuid code to permit non-setuid-privilened user authentications. With the new (experimental) 1.5 cygwin dll its now possible to have a cygwin managed mount which

Re: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays

2003-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote: Work remains to to fix authFile (change the colon character to something storeable on the NTFS filesystem) and to add ntsec setuid code to permit non-setuid-privilened user authentications. With the new (experimental) 1.5