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

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

   Um, I am running SXCE B78 and gksu is present. I can run:
   gksu /usr/sbin/gdmsetup

Regards,
Moinak.