Multiple login windows on the 3b1

[Bruce D. Becker]

In article <76 at morwyn.UUCP> forrie at morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes:
|Just a comment on multiple login windows:
|
|when you screw with the inittab to get this to happen, the /etc/utmp
|info gets mangled.  How I know this is that I have a few applications
|such as 'SUDO' that will not recognize me as a valid user when I am
|running multiple login windows.
|
|This is a question I asked MANY times and received (to my _dismay_) NO
|answers.  I've been TRYING very diligently to figure out what on earth
|is SO DIFFERENT with this machine in terms of the /bin/login program and
|the way it handles the /etc/utmp file (as well as other programs that 
|write to this file like /etc/getty).
|
|WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP?  I _know_ there are people out there that might
|know what the problem is.  I'm trying to adapt this machine to perform different
|functions, and for this to happen I need to debug this.  UNFORTUNATELY, it
|seems that anyone out there that has access to SRC for the 3b1 is 
|very inhibited to answer any inquiries I might have... 
|
|Any help would be appreciated... THANKS IN ADVANCE! 

	I have been using multiple logins with the 3B1
	for quite a while with no problems.

	The only trick I can think of is that you need
	to ensure that the first window ("/dev/w1") is
	the one which you use to login as the "owner",
	that is who will be the one for whom smgr puts
	up the envelope icon.

	Here's the relevant part of my inittab - there
	isn't a real need for the "dum" lines, they're
	just for listing order:

 		vid:2:respawn:/etc/getty window 19200
 		dum:2:wait:/bin/true
 		vi2:2:respawn:/etc/getty window 19200
 		dum:2:wait:/bin/true
 		vi3:2:respawn:/etc/getty window 19200
 		dum:2:wait:/bin/true
 		vi4:2:respawn:/etc/getty window 19200

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