On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:41:58PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > Hi, > > Let's see if we finally can add SELinux support to KDM in KDE 3.5.6 > > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton filled a bug with a patch about this in > the BTS some time ago (I'm CCing this bug report, #249784), but the patch > was never added by upstream
yes - instead the KDE development team bitched about the bug being in the debian bugtracker instead of the kde one. > and kdm still seems no have SELinux support. > > After ask help about this by IRC to Manoj, google has told me that > Rusell wrote a patch some time ago, but the url where the patch used to > be not longer work. > > If someody has more info about this, please mail it :) ok. kdm, wdm and xdm and gdm _all_ are _incredibly_ similar - it's as if they were all derived from the same codebase at some time (hmmm...) they all have near-identical user authentication, and it's pretty obvious, when you look at the right sections, exactly what needs to be done. in fact, without _fully_ understanding the implications, i simply cut/paste the code from wdm to create the kdm patch, and the reason it was rejected was because the original wdm selinux code had an obscure error-case _tiny_ memory leak. i mean, how _utterly_ pathetic and small-minded is that. a thirty line patch i think it was, where the area was abundantly obvious that you change one if statement around, and the guy couldn't be bothered to fix it, after contacting me _months_ - nearly a _year_ - after i'd stopped doing selinux and kdm development and would have to take _days_ to recreate the environment and he could have taken a _few_ minutes of his "precious" time to fix it. really i was not in the slightest bit interested in pursuing the matter further. so. anyway. small memory leak. in wdm selinux. fix that. shoot the kde maintainer of kdm - get another one. that fixes that. patch kdm. job done. that sound like a plan? anyone know any corrupt policemen whom we can borrow a gun from with the serial number filed off? l. -- -- lkcl.net - mad free software computer person, visionary and poet. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
