Hello people.
Recently I upgraded my Slackware 10.1 to the current version. As many of you may know Gnome has been completely removed from the Slackware current version and will no longer be part of the distribution.
Not a big deal for me, as I mainly use KDE, and so are my colleagues. Gnome distro that used to come with Slacky was quite blunt and almost completely unusable. However there is one bit from Gnome I miss terribly: GDM. Obviously I had to uninstall it along with all the other Gnome packages (I want to be up-do-the-bleeding-edge).
However the replacement KDM falls terribly short of functionality if you want to replace GDM.
The main problem I could not get over is adding supplementary (console) groups to the users that have logged localy. GDM uses a method similar to the login.defs, and can add a number of supplementary groups to the users that log in on the console. Namely I use it to add the audio, cdrom, floppy and video groups.
I know I can put ALL MY USERS in these groups, but I don't want to! It seems very silly! Especialy for users that can also log in remotely.
The problem is, that if I start KDE from the command line on the console (tty1-6) I already have these groups added by login. If I use GDM I can also set up the manager to add these groups to the user's credentials for the session.
The only place I can;t do that is KDM...
So is there any way to workaround/patch/fix/blah/bleh this issue. Any plans to 'fix' this in time?
Hasn't any one ever wandered how to do this?!?
Tuesday, April 16th 2024, 9:14am
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