From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 16 16:14:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB9037BB8A for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA56818; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:14:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <397241CB.5FE7F6CF@attglobal.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:14:36 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: "Andrew M. Miklic" Subject: Re: GDM Cc: Will Andrews , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 16-Jul-00 Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > Conrad Sabatier wrote: > >> That's great! I couldn't get past some problems with authentication at the >> login screen. I assume you've figured that part out? :-) > > Actually, this is now where I'm stuck--I'm assuming it's either a problem > with not being able to find a specific file in what it thinks is a "standard" > place (like /etc/passwd), or some type of permissions problem with one of the > binaries (maybe gdm needs to be run suid)... > > Does anyone out there know how gdm installs itself under Linux? I initially thought the problem was with PAM, but eventually ruled that out as the cause (the author agreed that this was not where the problem was). I do have Redhat 6.2 installed on a second drive (seldom use it, just wanted to check out VMware, really). :-) I'll see if I can find anything useful there. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message