Login faces

[Scott Drellishak]

After having read the man pages on pandora (the login program), I discovered
that it was possible to place an image in SGI format (whatever that means)
into /usr/local/lib/faces/account-name, and that image would be displayed
instead of the default stick-figure.  However, when I placed the file there,
it worked on the machine I was working on, but caused all the other machines
on the cluster to crash.  That is, I am on a machine called box...when I place
the image in the right place, box shows the proper image for my login name;
however, all the other machines in the cluster try to display my image, fail,
and give some error about "display manager failed" (or something like that),
and then do the same thing again, ad infinitum.

What's wrong with the image that it can be displayed on my machine but none
of the others...the image is a colormap image, and the machine is a Personal
Iris.  I realize this may be a total rookie question...I am a total rookie.
Nice machines, though.

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Scott Drellshak, sfd at ocf.berkeley.edu