XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays

[David Fraser]

msg wrote:

>Greetings:
>
>Just reporting progress on making a working XDM for Cygwin/XFree86
>to manage remote displays:
>
>I now have XDM working to provide a greeter dialog, authenticate
>the 'root' user (who has setuid privs on the host) and spawn
>the .xsession (in my case startup an rdesktop session).
>
>Very satisfying.
>
>Work remains to to fix authFile (change the colon character to
>something storeable on the NTFS filesystem) and to add
>ntsec setuid code to permit non-setuid-privilened user authentications.
>
>Michael Grigoni
>Cybertheque Museum
>
>  
>
Wow! This is great news! Let us know when code is available ...

Thanks
David