Re: gdm still broken

[Tim Lewis <talewis worldnet att net>]

Nathan,
That did the trick.  Thanks for your reply.
Tim



"Smith, Nathan A., Capt." wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think I no your problem (it took me awhile to catch this).  The RPM file
> is not complete, specifically the SRPM.  What I have discovered is that the
> gdm file under /etc/pam.d/ is missing.  Actually, what happened with my
> setup is that the original gdm file was moved to gdm.rpmorig and it wasn't
> replaced with anything.  PAM needs this file to authenticate anyone.  Take a
> look and see if this isn't the problem.  All I did to fix it was move
> gdm.rpmorig to gdm.  Let me know if this helps.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Clausen [SMTP:clausen@alphalink.com.au]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 1999 12:58 PM
> > To:   sungod; gnome-list
> > Subject:      Re: gdm still broken
> >
> > sungod wrote:
> >
> > > I just downloaded and installed the new RPM for gdm, version 1.0.0-2. It
> > > at least contains the old documentation that was omitted from version
> > > 1.0.0-1, but still cannot authenticate any users.
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell by the documentation, all my paths and permissions
> > > are correct. Is this still a live bug in gdm, or some weird packaging
> > > problem? How can I fix it?
> >
> > Can you post any relevent info from /var/log/messages?
> >
> > Andrew Clausen
> >
> >
> >
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