I have noticed these points too, hence my email. I guess that for, security reasons, the policy in gdm.conf must be applied, but why it is not applied by default. As a matter of fact, I want the login greeter to run xscreeensaver and I encounter some problem, so I am investigating.
Jerome
Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
who may run gdm, the gdm user or the root user ?
$ ps -ef | grep gdm root 3068 1 0 Oct20 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm root 3069 3068 0 Oct20 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm root 3074 3069 5 Oct20 ? 20:01:53 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7
i *think* this is root because i manually started up gdm after boot (i had to load an nvidia module manually).
also:
$ cat /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
<snip>
# User and group that gdm should run as. Probably should be gdm and gdm and # you should create these user and group. Anyone found running this as # someone too privilaged will get a kick in the ass. This should have # access to only the gdm directories and files. User=gdm Group=gdm
<snip>
-matt zagrabelny
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