sdm-login(8)

sdm-login8

Prompts a user for login

Usage

sdm-login

Overview

presents the user with a login screen, using zenity(1), similar to the xdm(1) login prompt. instead of using the XDMCP protocol, sdm-login uses ssh(1) X11 Forwarding to encrypt the entire ssh session.

configuration options are defined in /etc/sdm/sdm.config and /etc/sdm/sdm.config.$hostname

if autologin is set to yes, the login prompt will not be displayed, and sdm-login will attempt to log in as the same user as the hostname of the system, unless the user variable is defined in one of the configuration files.

Files

/etc/sdm/sdm.config /etc/sdm/sdm.config.$hostname

Releases

4 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.1–5.0
  2. 6.0

Bugs

does not respond properly to kill signals.

Author

Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]>

From sdm-terminal 0.4.1-4 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.