Running scologin
The scologin display manager provides graphical
login windows to local and remote X servers,
as well as services that are similar to those provided
by login or getty.
In particular, scologin:
The scologin client is started as a daemon from the P86scologin script in /etc/rc2.d. By default, scologin controls the display on the second multiscreen, /dev/tty02.
The scologin window appears on the screens of all active X servers for which scologin is configured to manage. The scologin window contains two fields into which you enter your login name and password. The box also contains three buttons: Login, Restart, and Help. To start your session, enter your login and password, then press <Enter> or click on Login. To restart the X server and redisplay the scologin window, click on Restart.
If the login is successful, the following environment variables are set: $DISPLAY, $HOME, and $PATH. If you run the Desktop client, the $LANG environment variable is also set. These variables are discussed in ``Using environment variables''.
Once a user is successfully authenticated, several scripts are executed. These scripts are located in /usr/lib/X11/scologin and are listed in Table 3-1, ``scologin session scripts''.
Table 3-1 scologin session scripts
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Configuration file Description
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Xstartup a startup script that defines actions scologin takes
before beginning the user's session
Xsession, defines the nature of the user's X server session by
Xsession-csh, running the /usr/bin/startx script, which starts
Xsession-ksh, scosession
Xsession-sh
Xreset defines the actions that scologin takes when the user
ends a session
See also: