today's really stupid question

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Mon May 17 11:46:58 PDT 2004


On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:02:03 -0500
C M Reinehr <cmrNO at SPAMamsent.com> wrote:

> Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> 
> > Aaron Grewell wrote:
> >>> From the instructions on their site, you should be able to edit
> >>> /etc/passwd 
> >> and replace /bin/bash with /bin/pdmenu (or whatever the right path is
> >> to pdmenu).
> > 
> > That should only work *after* logging in, not as the login manager.
> 
>         If that's the case, it sounds as if you would have to edit
> the appropriate line in /etc/inittab:
> 
> 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty1 VC linux
> 
> replacing getty with pdmenu.

And maybe get some PAM stuff set up for it?

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