warning dialog box

[Borg, Rodney]

>Bill Said:
>inode0 wrote:
>> On 12/19/06, Bill Tangren <bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil> wrote:
>>> Could someone point me to a link that explains how to present the 
>>> user, sitting at the GUI console, with a dialog box either before or

>>> after login?
>>> I'm using
>>> gdm for console login.
>> 
>> I'm not clear on what you are trying to do or when but you might look

>> at zenity or dialog for popping up dialogs to the user.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>
>OK, zenity will display the dialog box, but where do I place the
command so that the dialog box is displayed either before or after the
user >>logs in via gdm?

Hi Bill,

I had to do a similar thing recently. This is how I did it:

1/ Place banner message in /etc/issue
2/ Added the following to /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default and to
/etc/X11/gdm/Init/0:
	# Login banner
	if ! /usr/bin/gdialog --textbox /etc/issue 60 100; then
	sleep 10
	exit 1;
	fi

I know nothing about zenity but I presume you could put a zenity
command(?) into the Default and 0: files instead of the gdialog command
and get similar results.
I had to do some extra work to make sure this worked for ssh logins too.

Regards 

Rodney Borg
Maritime Platforms Division
Defence Science and Technology Organisation
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Australia

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