[pkg-fso-maint] Thanks for packaging nodm!
Trent W. Buck
trentbuck at gmail.com
Tue May 25 11:02:21 UTC 2010
I just stumbled on nodm while looking at the live-helper changelog.
I'm intrigued, because currently currently I just have an rc.local of
env -i su twb -c xinit >/var/log/xinit.log 2>&1
nodm looks very complicated by comparison. If it's not too much
trouble, can you give me a one- or two-paragraph "sales pitch"?
I can see some obvious advantages:
- it runs a little earlier in rc2.d;
- it's configurable via debconf;
- it loops (restarting X if you log out/kill X);
- it hooks into pam somehow? Looks like the "env -i su twb" part
is done in C instead of fork-and-exec'ing.
- it needs a controlling tty? That would seem to contradict an
Xwrapper.conf(5) setting of allowed_users=anybody.
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