phlogin

Prompt user to log in

Syntax:

phlogin

Options:

none

Description:

The phlogin utility is typically used for nodes that boot directly into Photon or for users who start Photon via a phindows, phinx, or phditto session.

The login utility prompts the user to enter a userid and optional password through the QNX Photon Login dialog. The user can also click on an Exit button to return to the QNX text-mode console. To prevent users from exiting to text mode, you can disable this button by setting the PHEXIT_DISABLE environment variable to 1.

Environment variables:

The phlogin utility sets or uses these environment variables:

LOGNAME

If this environment variable isn't set (such as when ph is run in the sysinit file), ph runs the phlogin utility.

PHEXIT_DISABLE

Turn off the QNX Photon Login dialog's Exit button so that users won't be able to exit to text mode.

Caveats:

This utility cannot be started from the command line-the server runs it automatically when starting Photon without the LOGNAME environment variable set.

See also:

ph