Password changing for xdm

[Dr. Greg Wettstein]

On Mar 21,  9:02am, "James F.Hranicky" wrote:
} Subject: Password changing for xdm

Good morning to everyone.

> I'm thinking about trying to set up a prompter that can talk to the
> XDM login widget, but I'm not too familiar with all the code. If
> anyone has any pointers ("can't be done without a major rewrite",
> etc), I'd be greatful.

In the FWIW department I have a reasonably clean cut-out of the login
widget code from XDM in a recent XFree86 release.  I needed to do this
in an attempt to put together a Kerberized login implementation for
SGI.

I didn't want to tear out all the SGI X stuff and replace it with
XFree86 and this seemed to be the best way to get something that would
replace the clogin binary for SGI's implementation of XDM.  Since I
needed to implement the Hurderos authentication/authorization strategy
I have reasonably clean hooks for intercepting the identifier and
password.

It might be something that could save you a few steps although it
needs some more additional work.

> Thanks,

Let me know and I would be happy to ship you a tarball of sources.

Have a good weekend.

Greg

}-- End of excerpt from "James F.Hranicky"

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