SUN:  Disabling automatic user registration
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Newsgroup message about the HotJava browser coming up requesting that the user register the system and/or OS automatically every time they log in.  The following is the corrective action.

user name wrote:
>
> When I log in as a normal user, the HotJava browser comes up with the registration screen. How
> can I stop it?
> Thanks
> Zoong Pham

The official word on this is  :

SRDB ID: 19452

SYNOPSIS: Hotjava keeps coming up with CDE login

DETAIL DESCRIPTION:

Every time I login to CDE a HotJava window comes up.  I set my home session without it and it still comes up. It doesn't happen to root

SOLUTION SUMMARY:

There is a script /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d/1000.solregis that tries to force the user to register.

To disable for one user:

touch ${HOME}/.solregis/disable

There are two easy ways to globally disable registration:
 

  1. Just pkgrm SUNWsregu.  (An installation could set up jumpstart to leave this package out.)
  2. Create a file called /etc/default/solregis, containing the one line:
DISABLE=1

see also infodoc 18571

PRODUCT AREA: Windows

PRODUCT: CDE

SUNOS RELEASE: Solaris 7

HARDWARE: any

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