GNOME on trusted systems

[Chris Kosanovich]

I was wondering if anyone has had any success getting GNOME to run on HPUX 11i with trusted systems. I have been able to use the depot of GNOME 1.2 released by HP and it comes up to the GDM login but won't log me in, if i untrust the system then i can log in fine (although the password expires after 3 minutes or so and we have it set up so the passwd command is not enabled). I have also tried building GNOME from source and have been able to get it installed and when i log in (through the dtlogin, not GDM) it goes through the splash screen saying that it is loading GNOME and then it will sit at a blank x session and not start any window manager or anything. The depots i got for that build of GNOME were 1.4 from the HPUX porting and archive center (hpux.cs.utah.edu).
Any way i was wondering if anyone has any advice on getting this working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

-Chris

[Alex Glennie]

I've not tried it on 11.11 but can confirm it did not appear to work at 11.00 in the UKRC and on a trusted system ..... I'll dig around but suspect we may see improvements in later versions 1.4 and the like. If I find anything I'll post back .....

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

you'll need to thank Chuck Slivkoff US Response Centre for this .....

The 1.2 bits don't work with trusted systems. Ximian is working on
fixing this for 1.4. The only way to get 1.2 to work with trusted
systems is to exec the session from within .dtprofile.

The following will explain how to do this ....

This is a known problem and will be fixed in the next release of gnome.
However, the following work around can be implemented by allowing CDE to manage
the login process and by redirecting the session to a gnome session.

For an individual user add the following line to the user's .dtprofile:

exec /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/Sessions/Gnome

To make this a system wide change create the file
/etc/dt/config/Xsession.d/0020.gnome and add the exec statement above to
it. Make sure that the file is executable and owned by root:sys.

Once the above changes are made, log into the system as you would always do so
for CDE and a gnome session will appear.

[Chris Kosanovich]

Thank you a lot. I installed teh Depot again and set it up to exec from .dtprofile and it worked like a charm. Idealy i would like to log in using GDM but i guess we can't always have what we want, i will just have to wait till the next release.
But thank you for the help.

[Charles Slivkoff]

Hopefully the 1.4 release will have the PAM support working, & thus allow GDM to work on trusted systems.

BTW, I haven't tested, but I doubt that the screensaver/screenlock will work with the 1.2 build.