Defining Desktop user types

Determining a user type

Three resources are checked to determine the user type assigned to each user:

XDesktop3.Rules.user_name.userType
XDesktop3.Rules.group_ID.groupUserType
XDesktop3.Rules.defaultUserType

If none of these are set, then the user type ``SCO'' is used.

To assign a user a particular user type:

Edit the user's .Xdefaults-hostname file, where hostname is the name of the machine on which the client is running, to include the resource:

XDesktop3.Rules*userType: UserType
Include the following line in the preferences files for that user type:
```
   irl 'XDesktop3.Rules*userType: UserType'
```
Remove the user's $HOME/.xdt_dir directory, if it exists.

The userType resource is set in the user's .Xdefaults-hostname file to make the initial switch to the new user type. After that, the setting is done as part of the preferences file in the user type directory, and it does not matter if the user removes the line from their personal resource file.