Password-protecting fedora.

Ow Mun Heng ow.mun.heng at wdc.com
Wed Mar 10 05:30:00 UTC 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Saltzman [mailto:mjs at ces.clemson.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:57 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Password-protecting fedora.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Jansen [mailto:jansen at strw.leidenuniv.nl]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:16 AM
> > > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > > Subject: Re: Password-protecting fedora.
> > >
> > > > at the same time. Score one for Bjorn. gdmflexiserver makes
> > > it really
> > > > easy, is the main reason I mentioned it. I thought it 
> might help the
> > > > original poster, who was looking for a way to give people
> > > access to the
> > > > computer without them seeing his mail. The combination of a
> > > guest account
> > > > with a new login via gdmflexiserver would probably be the
> > > fastest/safest
> > > > way to so what he wants.
> > >
> > > Great! Wouldn't it be great if features like this were 
> easier to find,
> > > e.g a menu entry, man page etc? Or is it supposed to be an
> > > undocumented
> > > feature?
> >
> > Under Gnome -> Menu->System Tools-> New Login
> 
> Odd.  I don't have that entry in my System Tools menu.  And I 
> am running
> GNOME and I do have gdm installed.  (This is FC1 fully updated.)

Check..

Whereis gdmflexiserver

rpm -qil gdm 

or better yet.. try getting it up on a command line..





More information about the fedora-list mailing list