User Commands gdmsetup(1m)
NAME
gdmsetup - GDM Configuration Tool
SYNOPSIS
gdmsetup [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
gdmsetup provides a graphical interface that enables you to
modify the GDM configuration file, custom.conf. gdmsetup can
only be run as the root user. If the
"greeter/ConfigAvailable" GDM configuration is set to
"true", then users can access gdmsetup from the login
screen, but still need to enter the root password before
allowed to modify any configuration setting.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use
with most GNOME applications. See
gnome-std-options(5) for more infor-
mation.
EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
gdmsetup has five tabs: Local, Remote, Accessibility, Secu-
rity and XDMCP.
The following sections describe the configuration options
that you can edit. The affected custom.conf section-key pair
is listed in parentheses.
Local
Allows the configuration of how GDM behaves on the console.
]o Whether the local greeter program is the Themed, Plain,
or Plain with Face Browser (daemon/Greeter)
]o Show actions menu (greeter/SystemMenu)
]o Allow configuration from the login screen
(greeter/ConfigAvailable)
]o Allow running XDMCP chooser from the login screen
(greeter/ChooserButton)
]o Local Welcome string (greeter/Welcome)
]o If Themed greeter, set theme selection (greeter - Gra-
phicalTheme)
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]o If Themed greeter, install new theme
]o If Themed greeter, delete theme
]o If Plain greeter, set background image selection as
none, image, or color (greeter/BackgroundType)
]o If Plain greeter, set background image
(greeter/BackgroundImage)
]o If Plain greeter, scale background image to fit
(greeter/BackgroundScaleToFit)
]o If Plain greeter, set background color
(greeter/BackgroundColor)
]o Logo image (greeter/Logo)
Local
Allows the configuration of how GDM behaves for remote
displays via XDMCP. If remote login is enabled, the "Con-
figure XDMCP" button allows the configuration of XDMCP
parameters described below.
]o Whether the remote greeter program is Disabled, enabled
using same GUI than Local, or enabled and using a dif-
ferent GUI than Local (daemon/RemoteGreeter).
]o Remote Welcome string (greeter/RemoteWelcome)
]o If Plain greeter, whether background color is shown on
remote displays (greeter/BackgroundRemoteOnlyColor)
]o Enable XDMCP (xdmcp/Enable)
]o Honor indirect requests (xdmcp/HonorIndirect)
]o Listen on UDP port (xdmcp/Port)
]o Maximum pending requests (xdmcp/MaxPending)
]o Maximum pending indirect requests
(xdmcp/MaxPendingIndirect)
]o Maximum remote sessions (xdmcp/MaxSessions)
]o Maximum wait time (xdmcp/MaxWait)
]o Maximum indirect wait time (xdmcp/MaxWaitIndirect)
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]o Displays per host (xdmcp/DisplaysPerHost)
]o Ping interval in seconds (xdmcp/PingIntervalSeconds)
Accessibility
Allows the user to configure accessibility features in GDM.
]o Enable accessible login (daemon/AddGtkModules)
]o Allow users to change fonts and colors of plain greeter
(gui/AddAllowGtkThemeChange)
]o Make a sound when login window is ready
(greeter/SoundOnLogin)
]o Login start sound selection (greeter/SoundOnLogin,
greeter/SoundOnLoginFile)
]o Successful login sound selection
(greeter/SoundOnLoginSuccess,
greeter/SoundOnLoginSuccessFile)
]o Failed login sound selection
(greeter/SoundOnLoginFailure,
greeter/SoundOnLoginFailureFile)
Security
Configuration choices that affect security. The "Configure
X Server" button allows the user to configure the displays
found in the [servers] section of the GDM configuration.
]o Automatic Login selection (daemon/AutomaticLoginEnable)
]o Automatic Login username (daemon/AutomaticLogin)
]o Timed Login Selection (daemon/TimedLoginEnable)
]o Timed Login username (daemon/TimedLogin)
]o Timed Login delay (daemon/TimedLoginDelay)
]o Allow remote timed logins
(security/AllowRemoteAutoLogin)
]o Allow root to login with GDM (security/AllowRoot)
]o Allow root to login remotely with GDM
(security/AllowRemoteRoot)
]o
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Enable debug messages to system log (debug/Enable)
]o Always disallow TCP connections to Xserver
(security/DisallowTCP)
Users
Configure the Face Browser behavior.
]o Show all users in /etc/passwd in Face Browser
(greeter/IncludeAll)
]o Users to include in Face Browser (greeter/Include)
]o Users to exclude in Face Browser (greeter/Exclude)
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/sbin/gdmsetup Executable for GDM Configuration
Tool
/etc/X11/gdm/custom.confContains GDM configuration and docu-
mentation, can be modified by
gdmsetup
ATRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
ATRIBUTE TYPE ATRIBUTE VALUE
Availability SUNWgnome-display-mgr
Interface stability Volatile
SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your
platform.
gdmXnestchooser(1), gdmdynamic(1), gdmflexiserver(1),
gdmphotosetup(1), gdmthemetester(1), gdm(1m), gdm-
restart(1m), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)
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NOTES
Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2006.
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