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In article <49kae2$pt7@news.cais.com>,
Rusty Waters  <ferric@undertow.xanthia.com> wrote:
>small problem, probably already covered a million times, but...

Actually, fairly original.

>as part of my XDM login screen, I display a small oclock. the problem is/was,
>it doesnt seem to want to die when xlogin hands off to
>$USER/.xinitrc|.xsession. 
...
>	... this puzzles me, because i thought that xdm/Xsession run programs
>ran at root equivalent level. i thought that it should have killed the oclock
>with ALL logins, not just under root. 

Well, no.  Consider that Xsession  i s  your X login session.  It runs
as "you" (the logged-in user, whoever that might be).

You may have to set up a setuid-root program (*shudder*) that runs from
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession and kills the clock.

Better yet, since Przemek is EXACTLY RIGHT about super-user (you want
as few things to be owned by or be run by the super-user as possible),
have both the clock and the kill-clock program run as some other
"neutral" user that doesn't have any vital task in the system.

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Joe Yao				jsdy@cais.com - Joseph S. D. Yao