Re: gdm2-2.4.1.3

From: Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus_at_marcuscom.com)
Date: 05/31/03 

To: "alex@home" <alex@gutza36.de>
Date: 31 May 2003 13:21:13 -0400

On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 07:59, alex@home wrote:
> hi,
> i have tried to set up the Gnome Desktop Manager on my freshly installed
> 4.8-STABLE box, but some errors refuse to disappear:
>
> error msg:
> gdm_config_parse: Authdir /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdm is not owned by
> user nobody, group gdm. Aborting.

First, /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdm should be owned by gdm:gdm. Make sure
you're not using an old /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. You might want to
copy the factory-gdm.conf over gdm.conf just to be sure.

>
> _________________________
> what i have already done:
>
> #pkg_info -L gdm2-2.4.1.3
> /usr/X11R6/bin/gdm
> ...
>
> added this line in the group file in /etc/
> gdm:*:11:
>
> same for passwd in /etc/
> gdm:*:11:11:Gnome Desktop Manager:/usr/X11R6/etc/gdm:/sbin/nologin

This should have already been done for you. The gdm user has uid 92,
and you need to add this entry to /etc/master.passwd:

gdm:*:92:92::0:0:GDM Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin

Change your /etc/group entry so the gid matches.

>
> and set the entry in the /etc/ttys to
> /gdm on

Don't do this. Read the pkg-message from the gdm2 port. You need to
use the included rc script to start gdm2.

Joe

>
> i couldn' manage to set the owner of the dir/files: (why?!)
>
> /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root gdm 512 May 29 18:47 gdm
>
> gdm.conf in /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root gdm 2628 May 31 10:20 gdm.conf
>
> #chown gdm .keep_me
> chown: gdm: illegal user name
> _____________________________
>
> what am i doing wrong?!
>
>
>
>
> any help will be appreciated;-)
> thanx in advance
> *bsd-n00b
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