Configuring scologin on multiple displays

The scologin display manager can do more than run the simple session that its default configuration provides. In fact, scologin can control multiple servers, both on the local machine and on remote machines, or X terminals.

There are two ways to specify the X servers that you want managed by scologin:

• If the server supports the X Consortium standard X Display Manager Control Protocol, also known as XDMCP, you can usually specify the name or network address of a remote machine running scologin at the server.

  XDMCP is a dynamic mechanism whereby connections are made when requested by a display, such as a workstation or an X terminal, that can communicate through the protocol. The SCO X server (Xsco) supports XDMCP.

• If you want to configure scologin to run on a set of console ttys (for example, on tty01 through tty12), or if you want scologin to manage an X server that does not support XDMCP, you can add an entry for each of the displays in the /usr/lib/X11/scologin/Xservers file. Each line in this file specifies a display that should constantly be managed by scologin.

See also:

• ``About XDMCP X server options'' for a list of the X server options for using XDMCP

• ``Running scologin with XDMCP'' for information on running scologin on remote systems using XDMCP

• ``Running scologin with the Xservers file'' for information on manually configuring scologin sessions

• ``Using X terminals'' for information on managing an X terminal's display with scologin