GDM

Download Source:	http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdm/2.16/gdm-2.16.1.tar.bz2

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Dependencies

Required

• libgnomecanvas
• GNOME Doc-Utils
• librsvg

Optional

• intltool
• Linux-Pam
• TCP Wrappers
• OpenAFS
• usermode
• SELinux

Creating the GDM User/Group

groupadd -g 23 gdm &&
useradd -c "GDM Daemon Owner" -d /dev/null \
        -g gdm -s /bin/bash -u 23 gdm

Configuration Information

To enable secure remote connections you must have Zenity, OpenSSH and which installed add the following argument to your configure command:

--enable-secureremote=yes

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib \
    --libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib/gdm \
    --mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
    --with-pam-prefix=/etc &&
make

Install the package

make install

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the package:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" &&
CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" USE_ARCH=32 \
./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib \
    --libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib/gdm \
    --mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
    --with-pam-prefix=/etc &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH

N32

Compile the package:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" &&
CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" USE_ARCH=n32 \
./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
    --libdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib32 \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib \
    --libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib32/gdm \
    --mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
    --with-pam-prefix=/etc &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH

64Bit

Compile the package:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" &&
CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" USE_ARCH=64 \
./configure --prefix=${GNOME_PREFIX} \
    --libdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib64 \
    --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \
    --localstatedir=/var/lib \
    --libexecdir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/lib64/gdm \
    --mandir=${GNOME_PREFIX}/share/man \
    --with-pam-prefix=/etc &&
make

Install the package

make install &&
unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH

Configuring GDM

The default configuration parameters are stored in a static file ($GNOME_PREFIX/share/gdm/defaults.conf). This file is not intended to be edited. If modification of the configuration is necessary, you should add parameters to the /etc/gnome/gdm/custom.conf file. The settings in this file will override the settings in the static file. The same parameters in the static file are used in the configuration file.

Change the directory containing the GDM log files to the /var/log hierarchy:

install -v -m755 -d /var/log/gdm &&
sed -i.orig "/\[daemon\]/ a LogDir=/var/log/gdm" \
    /etc/gnome/gdm/custom.conf &&
rmdir -v /var/lib/log/gdm &&
rmdir -v /var/lib/log