Session Management Proposal

[Ray Strode]

George wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:07:42AM -1000, Ray Strode wrote:
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>>>users logged on I think, perhaps even looking at ssh logins and such.  But
>>>that's an implementation detail of the session manager.
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>>Sounds fine, but since the display manager already knows about the sessions
>>it starts (presumably), maybe it would be good if the sm could query
>>that information.  Note it will only be one of several possible things the
>>sm will need to check.
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>You can already do that through the socket protocol (see CONSOLE_SERVERS and
>ALL_SERVERS commands).  Of course this is only for GDM started logins.  SSH
>or other console (text) logins are not counted of course, you'd have to get
>that information though other means.
>
Great.  Let's make sure something like these get into the dm spec
(in particular ALL_SERVERS).

--Ray