Bugtraq: Re: Problems with redhat 6 Xsession and pam.d/rlogin.

[regs () NEBCORP COM (Ari Gordon-Schlosberg)]

[David Malone <dwmalone () MATHS TCD IE>]
> I've found two problems which seem to be present in RedHat 6.0 and RedHat 6.1.
> They're not earthshatteringly bad, but...
>
>       1) Xsession on RedHat will start kde, gnome or anotherlevel
>       rather than running a user's .xsession file, if you choose
>       one of these from kdm. This is bad if you have account
>       which have a special shell and xsession which are supposed
>       to only allow one use of the account.
>
>       Maybe it would be sensible to check a user has a shell listed
>       in /etc/shells before starting a kde, gnome or anoterlevel
>       session for them.
This issue is fixed in RedHat 6.1, where gdm (the xdm replacement) will run
the user's .xsession rather than gnome or kde.

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