GDM 2.20.9 (stable), the "Sheep" Release

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AOOH-GAH

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If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links

at the bottom of this announcement.

 

The 2.20.9 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager

(GDM) program with a few minor fixes and language translation updates.

Several Solaris specific issues have been addressed that came to light

due to OpenSolaris now being available.

 

- Fix processing of configuration variables in GDM's cleanup function so

that configuration options aren't checked after they are freed. (Brian

Cameron)

 

- Fix for underquoted strings in comparisons in the Init script. (Pacho

Ramos)

 

- Update docs so that the PamStack configuration option is explained.

(Brian Cameron)

 

- Correct processing of CONSOLE and PASSREQ /etc/default/login parameters

so that they are checked each time a user logs in, and the most recent

setting is used. Thus, if the value is changed, GDM honors it

immediately. (Brian Cameron)

 

- Trusted Solaris integration now supports multilabel session entires.

(Stephen Browne)

 

- Fix so that the gdm_ensure_sanity function is non-functional on Solaris.

This function sets file permissions on sockets which are inappropriate o

Solaris. (Brian Cameron)

 

- When using the Solaris ZFS filesystem, the ACL's are now properly set

so that the "gdm" user has access to the sound device, so text-to-speech

can work. (Brian Cameron)

 

- Fix for Solaris fbconsole launching code so that fbconsole is killed when

the user logs out. (Brian Cameron)

 

- Use bourne-shell syntax in config/Xsession.solaris which is more portable.

(Takao Fujiwara)

 

- Translation updates (Djihed Afifi, Pema Geyleg, Kenneth Nielsen, Mugurel

Tudor, Changwoo Ryu)

 

 

Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen .

Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl; and Brian Cameron.

 

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/

Latest Stable - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.24/

Latest Unstable - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.25/

Bug Reporting - http://bugzilla.gnome.org in the "gdm" category.

 

Have fun,

 

Brian

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