[indiana-discuss] gdm Bug 4887 - is a fix avalable?

[Alan Coopersmith]

James Cornell wrote:
> andrew wrote:
>> I notice from http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4887#c6 that this bug has been fixed in Nevada build 105. Is it possible to apply this fix to 2008.11 without recompiling any binaries? If so - what is the fix?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Andrew.
>>   
> Wasn't this a setuid bit problem on the gdm binary?  If it was you'd
> chmod u+s /usr/sbin/gdm I think.

No, it was a problem with the gdm SMF methods & the startup of dbus under
gdm's contract.   You'd have better luck asking about the fix in desktop-discuss
where the engineers who work on gdm are found.

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