2.4/openwin login question

[Bill Rook]

I am setting up an SS2 with Solaris 2.4. When I add a new user I cannot get Openwindows to start automatically upon login.
I have copied the contents of the skel dir to the user's home directory etc. but no luck. What am I missing?

Thanks in advance for the help.

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[Hero]

I'm no unix guru, and I have a system V sunsparc, but check this out,

in the /home/'user' directory, does the user own all the files?
if not, use chown and chgrp to make the files his own.

chown user filename
chgrp group filename

I don't know if this will help. Also, check for the dtmrc file in the
/home/user/.dt/ directory (if you have one)

[Mathew E. Kirsch]

Bill Rook wrote:
>
> I am setting up an SS2 with Solaris 2.4. When I add a new user I cannot get Openwindows to start automatically upon login.
> I have copied the contents of the skel dir to the user's home directory etc. but no luck. What am I missing?

Simply copying the contents of /etc/skel may not be enough:

1. You need to make sure that the files are named and permissioned
properly for the new user. The /etc/skel on the network I'm currently
working with has all the "dotfiles" (.profile, .cshrc, .login......)
prepended with a k (k.login, k.profile.....). The particular user also
has to "own" the files in his/her home directory.

2. The startup file may not be set up to automatically start
openwindows. The user's .profile or .cshrc needs to have some code in it
to start Openwindows. Mainly, you need to verify that the person is
logging in on the console, set the $OPENWINHOME environment variable to
/usr/openwin/, then run /usr/openwin/bin/openwin.