news 28 Posted March 19, 2009 AOOH-GAH -------- If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links at the bottom of this announcement. The 2.20.10 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) program with a few fixes and language translation updates. - Ensure that gid/egid are set to 0 when running the Init, PostLogin, PreSession, and PostSession scripts. This ensures that all scripts are run with consistent permissions. (Brian Cameron) - Ensure that the DISPLAY environment variable is never cleared upon changing language. It is important for some PAM modules to have the DISPLAY variable available. (Brian Cameron) - Improve the way that keycode values are initialized in the keymouselistener gesture listener. Using Xorg 1.5 the keycode initialization code does not always work if XKB is not initialized by the time the login GUI starts. So the gesture listener now checks if the initialization failed and reinitializes upon keypress if there was a failure. (Brian Cameron) - Enhance gdm-ssh-session so that the port value can be specified when doing a remote ssh connection. (Thomas Bechtold) - Fix double-free issue and provide better error reporting when the command specified by gdmdynamic can not be parsed. (Chris Wilson, Brian Cameron) - Correct how the host variable is freed in gdm_xdmcp_handle_message so it is not freed before it is last used. (Brian Cameron) - Make sure that pwent gets set before calling audit_fail_login, otherwise failed audit records are not set properly. (Brian Cameron) - Avoid printing NULL strings in the slave daemon. (Brian Cameron) - Backout Solaris specific code from the Xsession script. This code was moved to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d scripts, which is a better place to store such distro specific code than in the GDM module. (Takao Fujiwara) - Set default PRIO values properly on Solaris. (Brian Cameron) - Improve Solaris SDTLOGIN logic so that the "/var/dt" directory gets created if it is missing. (Brian Cameron) - Use g_remove instead of g_unlink when removing directories since it is safer. (Brian Cameron) - Translation updates (\303\205smund Skj\303\246veland) Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen . Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl; and Brian Cameron. Note2: If installing from the tarball do note that make install overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf. It will however save backups with the .orig extension first. #ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED Note3: Note3 has been depracated ... #endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */ Downloading: ============ Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/ Latest Stable - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.26/ Latest Unstable - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.25/ Bug Reporting - http://bugzilla.gnome.org in the "gdm" category. Have fun, Brian _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
