Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

Configuring Login and Session Services

A login/session server is a system that supplies desktop services (Login Manager, Session Manager, File Manager, Window Manager, and so on) to a display and X server.

Typically, a session server supplies services to X terminals. However, a network configuration can be set up that concentrates session services on one or more servers that are accessed by both X terminals and workstations.

Login Manager is the desktop component responsible for supplying login services to other displays. Once the user has logged in, Session Manager is started for the user.

For information about configuring login/session servers and X terminals, see Displaying a Login Screen on a Network Display.