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Re: XDM start with uid & pw
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:15:48 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: XDM start with uid & pw
- References: <chmgto$7b5$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, aroushdi wrote:
> Can i supply the UserId and password to Xwin -query
No. This is not designed.
> my objective is to
> jump to the main screen without typing the uid and pw coming from xdm
> can we do it ???
You could use SSH with public key authentication and X11 Forwarding
ssh -Y remotehost ~/.xsession
bye
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