The display manager makes your PC look like an X terminal. That is, it
presents you with a login screen that runs under X.
To start the display manager, log in as root on the console and type
`xdm -nodaemon'.
You can start xdm automatically on bootup by disabling the console getty
and adding the following code to /etc/rc.local:
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ]; then
echo -n ' xdm'; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
fi
To disable the console getty, change `on' to `off'
in the console entry in /etc/ttys:
console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" ibmpc3 off secure
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