From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 1 0:30:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mike.dhis.org (usr1-d26.stk.cwnet.com [209.21.20.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2E437BAC8; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:30:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mmuir@es.co.nz) Received: from es.co.nz (ogre.lan [192.168.100.1]) by mike.dhis.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11969D7; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39867C9E.55E3A5B7@es.co.nz> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:30:38 -0700 From: Mike Muir Reply-To: mmuir@es.co.nz X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ade Lovett Cc: "Andrew M. Miklic" , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GDM References: <39720BD5.9EAA658F@attglobal.net> <20000731081449.J735@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:24:05PM -0600, Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > > I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and the ports collection, but I was > > surprised could not find a port for the GNOME desktop manager (gdm) > > since it is available for OpenBSD and NetBSD, and so I have been using > > kdm for a graphical login manager--is gdm available for FreeBSD? > > Not yet.. as "shipped", GDM has a number of serious security > flaws, which can result in both local and remote compromises. > > I'm curious that you mention that OpenBSD has it.. given their > background, and the issues with the software, it would seem > a little counter-intuitive for them to have it. > > However, once I get back to my desk, I'll take a peek, and if > someone has come up with a secure version, then it'll probably > get added as part of the GNOME metaport. How about WDM? How does it compare security wise? -mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message