Re: gdm on debian (pam problem?)

[Edward Betts <edward hairnet demon co uk>]

On Sun, 27 Sep, 1998, Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu wrote:
> On 27 Sep, Edward Betts scribbled:
> > I have been trying to get gdm, the Gnome Display Manager to work on debian,
> > because I am bored of xdm.
> > 
> > I installed the pam libaries using dselect, recomplied gnome-libs 3.0 myself
> > and complied gdm, it runs but when i enter my username and password it tells
> > me they are wrong when they aren't. This is probably a pam problem has anyone
> > else tryed this, or have any thoughts?
> > 
> > If you want to try for yourself gdm is only avaliable from the gnome anon cvs
> > server.
> 
>   This is a shot in the dark since I don't have gdm --but are you using
> shadow passwords, and did you build gdm for shadow passwords?
> 

yes i run shadow passwords, surely the whole idea of pam is there is no need
to recomplie to change password system, i did not set any complie options when
i complied it.

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