Re: Question and project

[pedro noticioso <cucnews yahoo com>]

I tried to install it but it did not work on my RH 8

did you come up with it or did you read it somewhere
else?

--- Guillaume Proux <gproux acesoliton com> wrote:
> Hi Pedro,
> 
> pedro noticioso wrote:
> > After a little more thought, Ive seen that it
> would be
> > more appropiate to asign system user names to
> > different groups all within gdm.conf in sake of
> > simplicity
> 
> I found a way you could try that would let you do
> what you want without 
> having to change anything in gdm (and on top of
> that, I would really say
> this is the right way to do it as doing it in gdm
> would be really overkill)
> 
> What I did is change all my session scripts by a
> copy of the little 
> shell script attached ( I did not do a link because
> I am scared that
> gdm might have something against symbolic links).
> 
> What the script does is try to match the id of the
> session user with
> an executable file located in
> 
> /usr/X11/gdm/Session/group/{gid}/{sessionname}
> 
> where {gid} is the group of user of the Session
> and {sessionname} the name of the Session in the
> directory (e.g. Gnome, 
> KDE, default)
> If it cannot find something to execute there, it
> will try to execute
> the default in 
> /usr/X11/gdm/Session/nogroup/{sessionname}
> 
> The script tries each id listed in 'id -G' and picks
> up the first one.
> Up to you to provide corresponding sessions for the
> correct groups and
> supply the directories & files (with +x bit set) in
> the directory 
> /usr/X11/gdm/Session/group/ and nogroup for people
> without specific
> profiles.
> 
> I believe this is the right approach for your
> problem.
> If you need something more complicated, then it will
> be easier to
> use a kind of database instead but you should try to
> see if this 
> approach would not fit what you want.
> 
> I don't think changing GDM will gain you anything
> (George?)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Guillaume
> > #!/bin/bash
> 
> current=`dirname $0`
> sessionname=`basename $0`
> result=''
> 
> for i in `id -G`; do
>    newsession="$current/group/$i/$sessionname"
>    if [ -x $newsession ]; then
>       result=$newsession
>       break
>    fi 
> done
> 
> if [ -x $result ]; then
>     $result;
> else
>     $current/nogroup/$sessionname;
> fi
> 
> 
> >
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