The go-login Authentication Program

The go-login program is started by inetd and receives user authentication information from the applet before starting the session. The go-login program is designed to be called directly from inetd. Some implementations of inetd software limit the number of command-line arguments that can be passed to the go-login program, making it necessary to call the go-login program from a shim script. The shim ensures that all of the arguments are passed to the go-login program. To use a shim, go-login must be installed into your inetd.conf file as follows:

go-login stream tcp nowait root /usr/openwin/server/etc/shim shim