gdm 2.14 added a new feature to start a session on a remote host over ssh. an elegant solution to the insecure xdmcp problem if I understand it correctly. see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322155 the configure option --enable-secureremote[=yes] is apparently not supported in the ebuild. from build log of 2.14.9-r1: --------------------------- ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-scrollkeeper --sysconfdir=/etc/X11 --localstatedir=/var --with-xdmcp --with-pam-prefix=/etc --disable-xevie --disable-ipv6 --without-selinux --with-tcp-wrappers --without-xinerama --enable-authentication-scheme=pam --disable-gtk-doc --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu ... GDM2 configuration summary: =========================== CFLAGS : -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes LDFLAGS : prefix : /usr sysconf : /etc/X11 sysconfsubdir : gdm gdmconf dir : ${sysconfdir}/${sysconfsubdir} dmconf dir : /etc/X11/dm bin dir : ${exec_prefix}/bin sbin dir : ${exec_prefix}/sbin PAM prefix : /etc data dir : /usr/share X server : /usr/X11R6/bin/X TCP Wrappers support : YES Xinerama support : NO XDMCP (remote login) support : YES Secure remote connection : NO DMX (Distributed Multihead X) support : YES Console helper : NO SELinux support : NO Solaris Trusted Extensions support : NO Authentication scheme : verify-pam Extra utilities built : gdmopen gdmaskpass --------------------------- zenity is a new additional dependency. I presume a use flag would be desireable, although I see no harm in having it enabled by default-- it does not affect the gdm binary-- it only adds a a launch script and .desktop file. plz add kthnx :)
*** Bug 151210 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
this is integrated in gdm-2.19 available in the overlay.
This is in GDM 2.20, which is now in the tree, marking as fixed.
