[lug] SSH notes for meeting August 8, 2002

[Rob Judd]

> > My slides for the demo on using keys with SSH may be found at
> > http://www.math.du.edu/~rjudd/cryptography/notes/

[ snip ]

> > So my question is: are there any user-definable scripts that KDE and Gnome
> > run where you could put this line as a regular user?  I would like to add
> > that information to my slides.
>
> I don't know about the install locations for all things on all
> distributions, but there is (at least on RH) /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/,
> with a startup purpose similar to the system init scripts. If you place
> an executable file or shell script in that directory, I believe it will
> go through each name it finds with a "for each file found" type script.
> I do not know if it will do all that you want or not, but I added
> "xhost.xinitrc" there to run the proper xhost commands for my setup. I
> think this works regardless of whether a display manager is used or not
> (e.g., xdm, kdm, gdm). You'll also see other directories that you can
> poke around that have some useful properties.

This is the same, albeit in a different location, as editing startkde,
Xsession, or whatever.  I would like a solution that doesn't require root
privileges.

Thanks, Rob