Re: gdm on debian (pam problem?)

[Daniel_Burrows brown edu]

On 27 Sep, Edward Betts scribbled:
> I have been trying to get gdm, the Gnome Display Manager to work on debian,
> because I am bored of xdm.
> 
> I installed the pam libaries using dselect, recomplied gnome-libs 3.0 myself
> and complied gdm, it runs but when i enter my username and password it tells
> me they are wrong when they aren't. This is probably a pam problem has anyone
> else tryed this, or have any thoughts?
> 
> If you want to try for yourself gdm is only avaliable from the gnome anon cvs
> server.

  This is a shot in the dark since I don't have gdm --but are you using
shadow passwords, and did you build gdm for shadow passwords?

  Daniel