Re: patched garball for gdm

[Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork linuxfromscratch org>]

Joseph E. Sacco, PhD <joseph_sacco <at> comcast.net> writes:

> I would edit verify-shadow.c 
> 
> and replace
> 
>         /* Configuration option variables */
>         extern gboolean GdmAllowRoot;
>         extern gboolean GdmAllowRemoteRoot;
>         extern gint GdmRetryDelay;
>         extern gboolean GdmDisplayLastLogin;
> 
> with 
> 
>         /* Configuration option variables */
>         static gboolean GdmAllowRoot = FALSE;
>         static gboolean GdmAllowRemoteRoot = FALSE;
>         static gint GdmRetryDelay = 0;
>         static gboolean GdmDisplayLastLogin = TRUE;
> 
> which should (a) work, and (b) do no harm.
> 
> I would appreciate hearing if this works.

Thank you for this! This worked excellently here. I encountered this problem
today and was loathe to the idea of installing PAM onto my system. I haven't
been able to test gdm yet - garnome is still building, but I will report if it
causes any errors.

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JH