[gdm-list] GDM2 2.14.4 (stable), the "SuperNovaBlastThree" Release

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

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(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first)

The 2.14.5 release is a stable release of GDM that fixes a security
related issue discovered in GDM 2.14.4 only.  I recommend not using
GDM 2.14.4.  Refer to bug details mentioned below for more information.

2.14.5 stuff:

- Explicitely adjust the effective GID before running the child session
  program to avoid remaining with high privileges.  Fixes bug #340347.

- Updated config/gettextfoo.h to reflect current strings for translation.
  Fixes bug #340017.  (Brian Cameron)

- Updated comments in GDM configuration files (Brian Cameron)

- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Josep Puigdemont Casamaj\303\263,
   Artur Flinta, Priit Laes, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Lukas Novotny, Daniel
   Nylander, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Francisco Javier F. Serrador,
   Alexander Shopov, Funda Wang)

Note:  GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp mkp net>.
Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl, and Brian Cameron
currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.

Note2:  If installing from the tarball do note that make install
overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf.  It will
however save backups with the .orig extension first.

#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3:  Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */

Downloading:
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Online Documentation: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.8/

No RPM this time around BTW.  Have fun.  A spec file is included though,
so you can try:

  rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz

Have fun,

Brian