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From: Enrique Soriano <esoriano@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] drawterm-macosx problem...
Date: Thu,  1 Jul 2004 11:38:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088674730.32019.18.camel@ronin.dat.escet.urjc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c36282226f2a755976c24c4299ca83a@plan9.ucalgary.ca>


> >> When I type my username, the term says:
> >>
> >>         "not a local console; won't ask for password"
> >
> > sounds like an old hack that was in passwd(1) to
> > stop idiots changing their password on cpu servers.
> >
> > [allowing this would xmit your passwords(s) in the clear]
>
> lunix drawterm checks whether $DISPLAY is 'host:#' or just ':#' and
> decides whether it should prompt for a password or not.
>
> no idea whether there's a difference in OSX
>

That was the problem... in my MacOSX
console $DISPLAY was set to '0:0'

If I set it to ':0.0', then drawterm works
well.

Now I understand why it worked ok on
a xterm and not in a mac console...

Thanks!!!

Q.








  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-01  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-30 16:31 Enrique Soriano Salvador
2004-06-30 20:39 ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-30 20:45   ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-07-01  9:38     ` Enrique Soriano [this message]
2004-07-01 17:59 Ben Huntsman
2004-07-01 18:34 ` andrey mirtchovski

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