Hello GDM-Team, thanks for your great efford of creating and maintaining gdm. However, i had some issues with gdm that where hard to find/solve. We have some "unusual" directory permissions at our site where the home directories of users are not owned by the user itself but by someone other. This is done for security reasons and can't be changed. So i had the problem, that gdm didn't ask for/safe any session as the default session. After looking at the source code, i found that there is done a check for directories and owners that returns false if the owner isn't the user who wants to log in... (which is the normal case for most users of gdm i think, but not for me... :-) So i patched the sources (2.4.4.7) to add a new configuration option "CheckDirOwner" to solve my problem. I thought i should send you this patch, perhaps you would like to include such functionality some day (perhaps there are others than me with similar "problems"). If you have any comments, please reply to my email-adress also, as I'm not subscribed to this email-list. Thank you and keep up that great work, Andreas -- andreas schubert mathema de MATHEMA Software GmbH Nägelsbachstraße 25 b 91052 E r l a n g e n Telefon 09131/8903-0 Telefax 09131/8903-55 http://www.mathema.de
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