From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 31 10: 7:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 912D737B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:07:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from narva27.aklubi.ee (narva27.aklubi.ee [193.40.32.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A1E43E77 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:07:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Andres.Aitsen@mail.ee) Received: from mail.ee (t652.narva27.ee [192.168.27.23]) by narva27.narva27.aklubi.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA11390; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:33:08 +0200 Message-ID: <3DC16C3B.CAD37E47@mail.ee> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:45:31 +0200 From: Andres Aitsen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Bleichert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD and GDM startup? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Bleichert wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Pookie wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:56:37 -0800 > > From: Pookie > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: FBSD and GDM startup? > > > > How would I go about starting GDM on boot. I looked through the handbook > > and im unable to find documentation > > > > > > gdm and kdm are based on XDM and an excellent discussion of all 3 is in > the Handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html > > (you'd never find it if you're looking for gdm ;-) > > JB > > # John Bleichert > # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg > There is nothing about gdm. Take a look in /usr/ports/x11/gdm2/pkg-message : GDM is installed. Please note the following: - This port has been tested on 5.0-CURRENT and 4.4-RELEASE and higher. - If you are running a version of FreeBSD prior to 4.5-PRERELEASE, you should append these lines to your /etc/pam.conf, otherwise GDM will refuse all logins: # gdm config gdm auth requisite pam_unix.so try_first_pass gdm account requisite pam_unix.so try_first_pass gdm session required pam_permit.so - Do _NOT_ use /etc/ttys to start gdm at boot time. This will result in gdm hanging or restarting constantly. Instead, copy the included gdm.sh.sample script to gdm.sh, and restart. This script is found, by default, in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d. These notes were written by: Yukihiro Nakai and updated by: Joe Marcus Clarke Andres Aitsen Andres.Aitsen@mail.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message