QUICK NOTES ON INSTALLATION/USE:

If you didn't compile Gnome yourself, make sure you have the appropriate
-devel packages installed.

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If you want to install OVER RedHat or Ximian packages use,
following configure options:
--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/X11 --localstatedir=/var
--enable-console-helper --with-pam-prefix=/etc
However, there is now a spec file so you can build an rpm by just doing

rpm -ta gdm-<version>.tar.gz

This should work on RedHat 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9 and perhaps later, and if you're
very lucky then on your favorite other distribution, but no promises.  GDM is
not a trivial package so it's more likely it won't work in other places out of
the box.

If building from CVS, there is a script gdm-build.sh in the root of the
tree that you can use to build gdm and then install it with "make install".
The setup is a a redhat like one.

Definitely make sure the --with-pam-prefix points to the prefix where

Also if you want IPv6, use --enable-ipv6=yes option to configure!

-George
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WARNING: gdm is a *daemon* -- not a common user application. It
requires extensive knowledge about your system setup to install and
configure. gdm isn't - and never will be - Plug and Play
(i.e. ./configure ; make install). 

For security reasons a dedicated user and group id are required for
proper operation! gdm assumes that both the user and the group are
called `gdm'. Create these before running make install.  You can
change the name in gdm.conf, but it is advised that these are dedicated
to the gdm daemon.  This user will have access to some gdm files and
can cause gdm DoS attacks, so it is not be OK to just use the
user `nobody'.  Also it should not be a user with other privilages
as it is assumed that someone who may break the gtk frontend apps
can gain `gdm' access.

You should run ``make install'' as root to get the permissions right
on the authentication directory.  ``make install'' assumes the user
is named `gdm'

Configuration is done by editing the gdm.conf file (located in
<prefix>/etc/gdm/gdm.conf). If no config file exists, make install
will create one for you.

Put (copy) your (jpg, gif, png, xpm) picture to ~/.face to make it
appear in the face browser.

When reporting bugs you should first turn on debugging in
gdm.conf. Your syslog daemon might not log debug information per
default so you should make sure daemon.debug events are logged to a
file. Include the resulting log in your bug report.  It is known
that debugging can sometimes cause unrelated problems due to the
interaction with the syslog daemon, so it is not advisable that
you run with the debug option all the time.  (Not to mention
it generates a LOT of spew)


