[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: gdmconfig and package manager feedback]

[Marcelo Leal]

Oh, thanks! Let's wait for the "definitive" solution, but i think
should be a menu item for this (for the initial user, at least).

 Leal.

2008/5/12 Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com>:
>
>  Leal:
>
>
>
> >  There is no gdmconfig on OpenSolaris? I mean, i did not find a menu
> > option to customize the login screen, and searching for gdmconfig in
> > "package manager" did not return anything.
> >
>
>  The program is called "gdmsetup" and not "gdmconfig" on Solaris.  Some
>  ancient versions of GDM called the program "gdmconfig", and some distros
>  provide a symlink for backwards compatibility.  However, at the time
>  that GDM integrated into Solaris, we only shipped gdmsetup so no need
>  for the symlink.  The gdmsetup program is installed to /usr/sbin.
>
>  Note that on Solaris, you can only run gdmsetup as root, so it only
>  shows up in the menu if you log into GNOME as the root user.  You can
>  also run it by using "su" from a terminal, and running gdmsetup.
>
>  Some Linux distributions use gksu, sudo, or some other mechanism to
>  allow users to run gdmsetup without needing to login as root first.
>  However, we haven't (yet) implemented a solution like this on Solaris.
>
>  In GDM 2.22 rewrite, there is no "gdmsetup" or "gdmconfig" program yet.
>  So we will probably wait and see how this gets worked out in the new GDM
>  rewrite before we try to provide a better solution for this.
>
>  Brian
>
>



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