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SGML-ified manual. Only bare bones so far. 

1999-08-16    <mkp@mkp.net>

	* docs/C/gdm.sgml: SGML-ified manual. Only bare bones so far.

	* configure.in: Check whether crypt.h exists. Gnome bug #1925.
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1999-08-16 <mkp@mkp.net>
* docs/C/gdm.sgml: SGML-ified manual. Only bare bones so far.
* configure.in: Check whether crypt.h exists. Gnome bug #1925.
1999-08-15 <mkp@mkp.net>
* docs/gdm-manual.txt: Updated for v2 config file syntax.
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acconfig.h
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#undef HAVE_PAM
#undef HAVE_TCPWRAPPERS
#undef HAVE_SHADOW
#undef HAVE_CRYPT
configure.in
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......@@ -32,11 +32,15 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(security/pam_appl.h, [
if test $have_pam = no; then
# Check if -lcrypt is necessary
AC_CHECK_LIB(crypt, crypt, [
LIBS="$LIBS -lcrypt"])
# Check if -lcrypt is necessary
AC_CHECK_LIB(crypt, crypt, [
LIBS="$LIBS -lcrypt"])
# Check for shadow passwords (hack)
# Check if crypt lives in a separate header file
AC_CHECK_HEADERS(crypt.h, [
AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CRYPT)])
# Check for shadow passwords (hack)
AC_MSG_CHECKING("for /etc/shadow")
if test -e /etc/shadow; then
......@@ -48,7 +52,6 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB(crypt, crypt, [
fi
# TCP Wrappers for XDMCP access control
AC_MSG_CHECKING("whether to use TCP wrappers")
LIBWRAP_PATH=""
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daemon/verify.c
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......@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
#include <syslog.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <glib.h>
#include <crypt.h>
#include <config.h>
#include <gnome.h>
......@@ -31,6 +30,10 @@
#include <security/pam_appl.h>
#endif /* HAVE_PAM */
#ifdef HAVE_CRYPT
#include <crypt.h>
#endif /* HAVE_CRYPT */
#ifdef HAVE_SHADOW
#include <shadow.h>
#endif /* HAVE_SHADOW */
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<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN" []>
<book id="gdm">
<bookinfo>
<title>Gnome Display Manager Reference Manual</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Martin Kasper</firstname> <surname>Petersen</surname>
<affiliation>
<address>
<email>mkp@mkp.net</email>
</address>
</affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<copyright>
<year>1998, 1999</year> <holder>Martin K. Petersen</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
</para>
<para>
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
</para>
<para>
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
MA 02111-1307 USA
</para>
<para>
For more details see the file COPYING in the source
distribution of GDM.
</para>
</legalnotice>
</bookinfo>
<toc></toc>
<chapter id="intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
GDM is a replacement for XDM, the X Display Manager. Unlike its
competitors (X3DM, KDM, WDM) GDM was written from scratch and
does not contain any original XDM / X Consortium code.
</para>
<sect1 id="overview">
<title>Theory of Operation</title>
<para>
GDM was written with simplicity and security in mind. The
overall design concept is this:
</para>
<para>
Upon startup the <filename /gdm/ daemon parses its config file
<filename /gdm.conf/. For each of the local displays GDM
forks an Xserver and a slave process. The main GDM process
will then listen to XDMCP requests from remote displays and
monitor the local display sessions.
</para>
<para>
The GDM slave process opens the display and starts <filename
/gdmlogin/, the graphical login program. <filename /gdmlogin/
runs as a dedicated user and communicates asynchronously with
the slave process through a pipe.
</para>
<para>
GDM relies heavily on the presence of PAM, Pluggable
Authentication Modules, but supports regular <code /crypt()/
and shadow passwords.
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="Configuration">
<title>The Configuration Directory</title>
<para>
The configuration files for gdm are located in the /etc/gdm/
directory.
</para>
<para>
This is a listing of the config directory contents:
</para>
<literallayout>
Init/
PostSession/
PreSession/
Sessions/
gdm.conf
</literallayout>
<para>
gdm.conf is the main gdm configuration file. The options will be
described later in this chapter.
</para>
<para>
The remaining configuration is done by dropping scripts in the
subdirectories of the /etc/gdm folder. This approach makes it
easy for package management systems to install window managers
and different session types without requiring the sysadmin/user
to edit files.
</para>
<sect1>
<title>The Script Directories</title>
<para>
In this section we will explain the Init, PreRoot and PostRoot
directories as they are very similar.
</para>
<para>
When the X server has been successfully started, gdm will try
to run the script called Init/&lt;displayname&gt;. I.e. Init/:0 for
the first local display. If this file is not found, gdm will
attempt to to run Init/Default. The script will be run as root
and gdm blocks until it terminates. Use the Init/* script for
programs that are supposed to run alongside with the gdm login
window. xconsole for instance. Commands to set the background
etc. goes in this file too.
</para>
<para>
It is up to the sysadmin to decide whether clients started by
the Init script should be killed before starting the user
session. This is controlled with the KillInitClient option in
gdm.conf.
</para>
<para>
When the user has been successfully authenticated, gdm tries
to run the PreSession script. Similar to the Init-scripts,
PreSession/&lt;displayname&gt; will be executed first, if that is
not found gdm will attempt to run PreSession/Default. The
script will be run as root and gdm blocks until it
terminates. Use this script for local session management or
accounting stuff. The USER environment variable contains the
login of the authenticated user. The script should return 0 on
success. Any other value will cause gdm to terminate the
current login process.
</para>
<para>
Then the session script is run. Session scripts are located in
the etc/gdm/Session directory. Which one gdm runs depends on
the session the user chose in the Sessions-menu in the gdm
greeter. If no session is selected and the user has no last
session stored in his ~/.gnome/gdm file, the system will
choose or first script found or -- if Sessions/Default exists
-- this will be run. For instance you can create a symlink
from Gnome to Default to make Gnome the default desktop
environment.
</para>
<para>
When the user terminates his session the PostSession script
will be run. Operation is similar to Init and PreSession. That
is, gdm will attempt to execute the script
PostSession/&lt;displayname&gt; and if that doesn't exist:
PostSession/Default. Again the script will be run with root
priviledges, gdm will block and the USER environment variable
will contain the name of the user who just logged out.
</para>
<para>
Neither of the Init, PreSession or PostSession scripts are
necessary and can be left out. At least one session script is
required for proper operation.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>The Configuration File - <filename /gdm.conf/</title>
<para>
The daemon and the accompanying utilities share a common
configuration file: <filename>/etc/gdm/gdm.conf</filename>.
</para>
<para>
The configuration file is divided into sections each
containing variables that define the behaviour for a specific
part of the GDM suite.
</para>
<para>
<filename /gdm.conf/ follows the standard GNOME configuration
file syntax. Keywords in brackets define sections, strings
before an equal sign (=) are variables and the data after
equal sign represents their value.
</para>
<para>
In general, 0 represents disable and 1 represents enable for
boolean configuration options.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>[daemon]</title>
<para>
This section contains configuration options for the GDM
master daemon <filename /gdm/.
</para>
<sect3>
<title>Chooser</title>
<para>Default:</para>
<screen>Chooser=/usr/bin/gdmchooser --disable-sound</screen>
<para>
Full pathname to the <filename /gdmchooser/ executable.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>
</book>
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