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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

100.0. "Ultrix Session manager Customize Security flakiness" by WINERY::ROSE () Wed Feb 01 1989 19:30

    With SDC UWS 2.0 (Ultrix DECwindows), the session manager's Customize
    Security dialog box seems flaky. 
    
    Specifically, I just started with three entries (SYRAH::, syrah and
    localhost). I added chabli:: (making four entries), then did a Save
    Current Settings on the session manager, and exited the session. Now,
    when I bring up the dialog again, I see the following eight entries: 
    
    SYRAH:: syrah localhost chabli:: CHABLI:: SYRAH:: syrah localhost   
    
    Is this behavior a known bug? Should it be QAR'ed?

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100.1try again...maybeMTA::GRAHAMthe beat is tough and jazzyWed Feb 01 1989 20:239
    
    Flavio,
    
    did you follow the following sequence - "add", "apply", "ok" from
    the Customize Security dialog before saving Current Settings from
    the Session Manager?  
    
    								kris..

100.2Sorry, no such luckWINERY::ROSEThu Feb 02 1989 00:0715
    The first time I did just "add", "ok". 
    
    I tried it again now with "add", "apply", "ok" and I still have
    the same problem.
    
    The session manager writes the following at the end of my .Xdefaults:
    
    sm.host_list:   SYRAH::,syrah,localhost,chabli::
    sm.num_hosts:   4
    
    The system is freshly installed from the SDC tape. The root and /usr
    partitions were completely overwritten... no internal baselevels
    left. 
                     

100.3I see it too.ENXIO::thomasThe Code WarriorThu Feb 02 1989 02:142
But it doesn't really matter to me 'cuz I use xhost anyways.

100.4problem? QAR please.SMURF::HOFFMANanywhere in the universeThu Feb 02 1989 13:015
    Please submit a QAR.  Meanwhile, I have forwarded a copy of
    note 100.* to the responsible developer.
    
    John

100.5potential conflict between xhost file and X resource ???SICVAX::TIMMINSXUI & OSF - Perfect TogetherThu Feb 02 1989 17:5119
    
    This does seem to be a problem.  I had the same type of problem during
    teh DECtop setup for the NYA ACT on the DS3100.
    
    However, it sometimes worked and sometimes didn't.  I generally use
    xhost due to habit, but I have modified the entries for the session
    manager as noted above and seem to find duplication between the 
    entries in xhost and the session manager.  Unfortunately, I made it
    work for DECtop, and didn't trace down the problems to where they
    were repeatable.
    
    Perhaps someone with source should check to see if there is a 
    sequencing problem with reading in the X resource file and the
    xhost file after checking to ensure that the server is storing the
    sm... resource info correctly.
    
    Larry
    

100.6still the same problem with customize securityFRSTSC::CHRISTIANThu Feb 08 1990 10:508
	Hello,

	a year later and still the same problem. Is any solution found or
	should i give the message to the customer, that a QAR is written ?

	regards 
	/ANJA

100.7Not in UWS 2.2, Fixed in future 4.0, server problemOPHION::MIKEYMike YangThu Feb 08 1990 17:2311
    What version of UWS are you running?  I didn't see this problem
    (duplicated hosts in the security list) with UWS 2.2.
    
    If you're running UWS 4.0 (that shipped with Ultrix 4.0), there was a
    *server* problem which caused the duplicated hosts.  This was just
    fixed the other day.
    
    xhost and the session manager are merely different ways of doing the
    same thing -- adding/removing hosts from the server's security list. 
    If you're seeing duplicates, it's because the server is not noticing
    that hosts are the same and consolidating them.
100.8UWS 2.2 not shipped in GermanyFRSTSC::CHRISTIANFri Feb 09 1990 03:1011
	Hello Mike,

	it's a DECstation 2100 running UWS 2.1. In Germany UWS 2.2 is not
	an official SDC. I hope that's the correct word. We are always a litle
	bit later on. The customer has serveral U**X maschines , the DECstation
	is lent from DIGITAL. He ist testing if there are differences in the
	windowing SW between the different maschines. 

	BTW UWS 4.0 i heard of it. Never seen. Germany is far away.
	
	/ANJA