'sessreg'
                             =========

This is a quick port of 'sessreg', the session registration program used by 
'xdm' to write login-entries to the /etc/wtmp and /etc/utmp files. The version
included with Xfree-1.2 is broken, and fails with an 'lseek' error.

The binary included is compiled with gcc-2.3.3 with the 4.3.2 sharable
libraries.

'sessreg' should be copied to /usr/bin/X11, and called from the 'xdm'
startup and reset files. These files are defined in
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config as the parameters 

DisplayManager._0.startup:      /usr/lib/X11/xdm/<whatever>
DisplayManager._0.reset:        /usr/lib/X11/xdm/<whatever>

In the standard SLS distribution, these files are called GiveConsole and
TakeConsole, respectively.

Please note that these files are sourced as user 'root', so be careful what
goes into them. Note also that 'sessreg' should *not* be installed setuid
root.

To add a utmp/wtmp entry, 'sessreg' should be called from
DisplayManager._0.startup as follows: 

sessreg -a -l console $USER

To delete the entry in DisplayManager._0.reset, use

sessreg -d -l console $USER

For more info, see the man pages included.

Nick
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