[792] in athena10
Re: Changes to debathena-gdm-config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Thu Jan 8 12:54:09 2009
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:53:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> The first is that it disables a couple of permission checks in gdm.conf:
> =E2=80=A6
> If we know that these checks don't cause problems for AFS users, they=20
> can be reverted.
That=E2=80=99s the wrong way to go about justifying a config change. Do we=
know=20
that these checks _do_ cause problems for AFS users? If not, we should=20
leave the default.
> The second is that it sets the GDM session directory to=20
> /usr/share/debathena-gdm-config/sessions alone (it defaults to a number o=
f=20
> directories where session files may be).
And similarly for this. What problems do the other directories cause? It=
=20
is not Debathena=E2=80=99s job to delete lots of functionality from Ubuntu =
just=20
because it isn=E2=80=99t =E2=80=9Csupported by Athena=E2=80=9D. We should =
only remove=20
functionality that is actively harmful to Athena users.
As discussed on Zephyr, the global Xsession is supposed to run for the=20
alternate session files. Did you find a bug where this isn=E2=80=99t the c=
ase?=20
If so, that=E2=80=99s the bug that we should fix.
Anders
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