Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:47:40 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@udlkern.fc.hp.com> Cc: nakai@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM Message-ID: <20001016164740.A60683@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <39EB10C2.97F3D78@udlkern.fc.hp.com>; from miklic@udlkern.fc.hp.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:29:22AM -0600 References: <39EB060A.B4E87FD5@udlkern.fc.hp.com> <20001016155438.E58406@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <39EB10C2.97F3D78@udlkern.fc.hp.com>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:29:22AM -0600, Andrew M. Miklic wrote:
> This may seem like either a stupid or snotty question, depending on my level
> of ignorance about the ports collection and its ability to change files like
> the /etc/pam.conf, but shouldn't an install of gdm either modify this file
> appropriately so that it will just work "out-of-the-box", or at least do
> something akin to what netscape does (for its java applets problem) and
> print a nice little message at the end of the install notifying the user
> of a potential problem and suggesting a step-by-step manual solution for it?
Yes, I agree. As you describe, there are a number of ports that do this
already. GDM should be updated to print such a notice too.
Attached is a quick patch that should update the port; it is however
untested. Basically it displays a copy of pkg-descr (pkg-message). I
have updated some lines however to better reflect reality and to
correct a few spelling mistakes.
Maintainer, do as you want with this.
Regards,
--Stijn
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diff -urN /usr/ports/x11/gdm/Makefile gdm/Makefile
--- /usr/ports/x11/gdm/Makefile Mon Oct 9 11:26:47 2000
+++ gdm/Makefile Mon Oct 16 16:38:48 2000
@@ -36,5 +36,6 @@
post-install:
${INSTALL_SCRIPT} ${WRKSRC}/config/gnomerc ${PREFIX}/etc/gdm/
+ ${CAT} ${PKGMESSAGE}
.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff -urN /usr/ports/x11/gdm/pkg-message gdm/pkg-message
--- /usr/ports/x11/gdm/pkg-message Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
+++ gdm/pkg-message Mon Oct 16 16:44:47 2000
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+GDM is installed.
+
+Please note the following:
+- This port doesn't work on the normal FreeBSD 3.x-RELEASEs because
+ PAM is not stable.
+- This port has been tested on 5.0-CURRENT and 4.1.1-STABLE.
+ 4.x-RELEASE may or may not work.
+- 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
+
+- To enable GDM after booting, edit your /etc/ttys(5), and change the line
+ for ttyv8 to
+
+ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm -nodaemon" xterm on
+
+These notes were written by: Yukihiro Nakai <nakai@FreeBSD.org>
+and updated by: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
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