Re: [orca-list] accessible login

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

George:

> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 13:46 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> > gdmsetup is also not accessible, and probably can't be as long as it
> > requires that you run it as root. 
>
> This should not be an issue on GNOME 2.18 and newer systems.
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163132

I assume you mean that gdmsetup should work when launched with gksu
when you run it after you have logged in.  Yes, this is true.

I should have been more clear.  I don't think gdmsetup will work when
launched directly from the login screen if the user has configured GDM
to allow people to launch this from the GDM System Menu.  In this
situation, I don't believe GDM starts gdmsetup with the at-spi daemon
running, and it doesn't seem to work so well in my testing.

One idea for fixing this would be to modify gdmsetup so that it
runs as a non-root user (such as the gdm user when launched from the
logins creen), and is modified so that it has an "Apply" button.
This way gdmsetup would only actually modify the configuration when
the user clicks the "Apply" button and not the current way it works
(where it updates the configuration as you make changes in gdmsetup).
Then we could modify gdmsetup so that the action it performs when you
click this "Apply" button is done with privilege via gksu or whatever.
This way none of the GUI aspects of the program need to run as root.

But, as you may be aware, GDM is currently being rewritten to use
D-Bus, so perhaps things will be fixed in a different way?

Brian