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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:14:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To:        "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@attglobal.net>
Cc:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GDM
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000716181436.conrads@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <397241CB.5FE7F6CF@attglobal.net>

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On 16-Jul-00 Andrew M. Miklic wrote:
> Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> 
>> That's great!  I couldn't get past some problems with authentication at the
>> login screen.  I assume you've figured that part out?  :-)
> 
> Actually, this is now where I'm stuck--I'm assuming it's either a problem
> with not being able to find a specific file in what it thinks is a "standard"
> place (like /etc/passwd), or some type of permissions problem with one of the
> binaries (maybe gdm needs to be run suid)...
> 
> Does anyone out there know how gdm installs itself under Linux?

I initially thought the problem was with PAM, but eventually ruled that out as
the cause (the author agreed that this was not where the problem was).

I do have Redhat 6.2 installed on a second drive (seldom use it, just wanted to
check out VMware, really).  :-)  I'll see if I can find anything useful there.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier
http://members.home.net/conrads/
ICQ# 1147270



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