This change log contains only changes relevant to the KDM configuration, startup and packaging. Bug fixes are not listed, and feature changes only if they affect the configuration. 2005-08-21 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added timed login. Option AutoLoginDelay. * Added persistent auto-login. Option AutoLoginAgain. 2005-02-01 Oswald Buddenhagen * Made the word splitter more sh-like. Affects HaltCmd, RebootCmd, Setup, Startup, Reset, Session and Xrdb. * Replaced option Xservers with StaticServers, ReserveServers, ServerCmd, ServerArgsLocal, ServerArgsRemote, ServerVT and ServerTTY. 2005-01-31 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added console mode that is suitable for systems with VTs (Linux). Option ConsoleTTYs. The @tty spec in Xservers is irrelevant on those systems now. 2005-01-23 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added Grub support to boot options. Option UseLilo replaced with BootManager { None, Grub, Lilo }. Removed options LiloCmd and LiloMap. 2005-01-09 Oswald Buddenhagen * Merged sessreg into kdm. Option UseSessReg. 2004-08-14 Oswald Buddenhagen * Replaced dysfunct InteractiveSd with working ScheduledSd { Never, Optional, Always } 2004-07-28 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added control sockets. Control FiFos are now obsolete. Added control socket command line client 'kdmctl'. * The Setup program is now run even for automatic logins. Setup, Startup and Reset have the arg "auto" for automatic logins. 2004-07-23 Oswald Buddenhagen * Dynamic VT allocation added; option ServerVTs; no need to specify vtX in Xservers any more. 2004-07-10 Oswald Buddenhagen * GreeterPosX, GreeterPosY and GreeterPosFixed replaced with single GreeterPos which is a pair of relative coordinates 2004-07-01 Oswald Buddenhagen * The greeter can now run a "session preloader"; option Preloader 2004-04-15 Oswald Buddenhagen * Merge from XDM: - IPv6 support - LISTEN keyword in Xaccess - Changes to Enable and Port in [Xdmcp] now take effect when HUPed - Support for EGD/PRNGD; options PrngdPort and PrngdSocket 2004-04-14 Oswald Buddenhagen * -debug now groks additional bits for stracing and valgrinding helper processes and disabling syslog usage. 2004-04-09 Oswald Buddenhagen * NoPassUsers now accepts an asterisk ("*") meaning all users 2004-04-08 Oswald Buddenhagen * Changes to FifoDir and FifoGroup now take effect on the global command FiFo when HUPed. 2004-03-16 Oswald Buddenhagen * Changed AllowClose default to true; only the default kdmrc disables it for local display now. 2004-03-11 Chris Cheney * Sanitized UserPath and SystemPath defaults. 2004-03-07 Oswald Buddenhagen * Add user name autocompletion to greeter; option UserCompletion. As a side effect, "None" is gone from ShowUsers and UserList appeared; ShowUsers & SortUsers affect both the user list and the completion list. 2004-02-28 Oswald Buddenhagen * The default Xsession no longer tries to merge kdm's PATH into the one set up by the shell startup scripts. Instead, kde.desktop contains a full pathname and starttde fixes up PATH if necessary. * The default Xsession will emulate the startup behaviour of more shells, in particular bash, zsh and csh/tcsh. * Setting up the session log is now done by kdm, not the Session script; option ClientLogFile. 2004-01-25 Oswald Buddenhagen * Add support for specifying groups in SelectedUsers, HiddenUsers and NoPassUsers. Prefix group names with a @. 2003-12-17 Oswald Buddenhagen * XDMCP initiated local displays are now treated as remote displays (on localhost) by the config reader. 2003-11-09 Oswald Buddenhagen * Sanitized display restart behaviour; option StartInterval is gone. 2003-11-04 Oswald Buddenhagen * Conversation plugins can be configured now; option PluginOptions. * The "Restart X Server"/"Close Connection" action can be configured away; option AllowClose. * The "Console Login" action can be configured away without touching Xservers; option AllowConsole. 2003-10-27 Oswald Buddenhagen * KDM now complies with the input model of PAM. The greeter has an interface for conversation plugins, so alternative authentication mechanisms can be handled; options PluginsLogin & PluginsShutdown. * Password-less and automatic logins now use a separate PAM service (${KDM_PAM_SERVICE}-np). 2003-10-17 Oswald Buddenhagen * Add --with-kdm-xconsole configure switch. No need to patch Makefile.am to enable the built-in xconsole anymore. 2003-09-23 Oswald Buddenhagen * Session types are now defined with .desktop files; consequently the SessionTypes option is gone and we got SessionsDirs instead. * The default Xsession now hard-wires the session types - "default" to starttde - "custom" to ~/.xsession * The previous session type choice is now saved in a different file (~/.dmrc) in a different format (ini-file); the SessSaveFile option is gone. Optionally KDM can be configured to store all .dmrc files in a common directory (option DmrcDir); this can be useful for AFS based installations. * The location of the administratively set user faces is now specified by the FaceDir option and the pictures have a .face.icon extension (or .face for "natural" images, possibly photos). The spec for the above changes is shared with GDM, so packagers should choose common directories. * The kdmsts file moved to /var/lib/kdm by default; option DataDir. * Nuked the AutoLoginSession option; i don't think it was useful at all and it can be emulated anyway. 2003-09-03 Oswald Buddenhagen * Add option RandomDevice to override the OS specific default entropy source. 2003-08-26 Oswald Buddenhagen * Add random seed to forged "previous" session type calculation; option ForgingSeed. 2003-07-15 Malte Starostik * ColorScheme is now interpreted as the base name of the .kcsrc file, not the contents of its Name field. 2003-05-11 Oswald Buddenhagen * GUIStyle & ColorScheme now accept an empty string, meaning "built-in default". Made defaults empty, consequently. 2002-12-01 Oswald Buddenhagen * Integrated chooser into greeter; external 'chooser' executable and the Chooser option are gone. * The chooser can be started locally (without an XDMCP query); options LoginMode and ChooserHosts. * Added built-in xconsole to greeter; options ShowLog and LogSource. This code is not built by default; uncomment the first three lines in kfrontend/Makefile.am to enable it. * The DaemonMode option is gone. The command line switches -daemon and -nodaemon still exist, but are mostly unnecessary, as KDM can decide what to do based on the parent process ID. * The AutoLogin option and the -autolog/-noautolog switches are gone. * The AutoLogin1st option is gone. * The position of the -debug and -logfile command line options is irrelevant again. The -xrm option is back, but is ignored by the KDE frontend. 2002-08-28 Oswald Buddenhagen * Made it possible to specify the color scheme for the greeter; option ColorScheme 2002-08-10 Oswald Buddenhagen * Renamed kdmdesktop to krootimage, moved it back into the KDM source tree, and changed its command line * krootimage will be automatically invoked by the greeter by default; option UseBackground * Chucked out the [Desktop0] section from kdmrc. Instead, the location of the config file containing such a section is specified with the BackgroundRc option. * User images can now be optionally fetched from the users's home directories; option FaceSource * The default of the KeyFile option is now empty again * GreeterScreen now groks -2, meaning upper-right screen 2002-08-06 Oswald Buddenhagen * Automatically don't daemonize if started by init. 2002-03-19 Oswald Buddenhagen * The default Xsession will emulate the startup behaviour of sh/ksh by sourcing /etc/profile and ~/.profile. 2002-03-10 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added InteractiveSd option. This is not really implemented yet, so enabling it just makes KDM deny the existence of the shutdown condition/timing options. * The Setup script is now executed synchronously. Long-lasting commands should be put in the background explicitly. 2002-02-28 George Staikos * GreeterScreen now groks -1, meaning upper-left screen. 2002-01-14 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added option NumLock {On,Off,Keep} to preset the NumLock modifier state for the greeter 2001-12-11 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added AntiAliasing option to disable antialiasing in the greeter 2001-11-30 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added GreeterScreen option to put the greeter on a particular screen in multi-headed setups. * Changed the default of Language from "C" to "en_US" 2001-11-22 Oswald Buddenhagen * The defaults of the options Xservers, Session, Setup, Startup, Reset and PidFile are now back to the saner XDM defaults, so KDM works even without config files. * Changed option ShowUsers: All -> NotHidden * Renamed the option Users to SelectedUsers and NoUsers to HiddenUsers. * The GUIStyle option now groks all installed widget styles. Note that Motif+ and KDE are now called MotifPlus resp. Default. 2001-11-02 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added conditional/scheduled shutdown modes; options DefaultSdMode and AllowSdForceNow; moved AllowShutdown from [X--Greeter] to [X--Core]. * Added reserve display support; extension to Xservers. * Added command FiFo support (see README); options FifoDir, FifoGroup, [ShutDown]/AllowFifo, and [ShutDown]/AllowFifoNow. FiFo location and capabilities are exported in $XDM_MANAGED. 2001-10-04 Oswald Buddenhagen * Xauth files are now created in AuthDir, not AuthDir/authdir. Changed AuthDir default to /var/run/xauth. 2001-07-12 Oswald Buddenhagen * Renamed the option Xwilling to Willing * The RandomFile option is not recognized on Linux and OpenBSD any longer, as they have better entropy sources 2001-07-10 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added the tool 'genkdmconf'. It's supposed to create a suitable configuration for KDM during 'make install' by merging new defaults with a previous XDM/KDM config (if any is found). 2001-07-03 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added counterpart to the MinShowUID option: MaxShowUID 2001-06-23 Oswald Buddenhagen * Xauth files are now created in AuthDir/authfiles, not AuthDir/authdir/authfiles 2001-06-16 Oswald Buddenhagen * Optionally put the cursor right in the "Password" field when a user is preselected in the "Login" field; option FocusPasswd 2001-06-15 Oswald Buddenhagen * Replaced the ShutdownButton + ShutdownNeedsRoot option pair with the AllowShutdown {None,Root,All} option 2001-06-10 Oswald Buddenhagen * The source directory structure changed entirely * The argument to the -debug command line option is now a bit field; the DebugLevel resource is gone * The ErrorLogFile resource is gone * The greeter module libKdmGreet.so has been converted to an executable named kdm_greet; the external config parser is now named kdm_config. The resource GreeterLib and the command line option -getcfg (and -cfg2get) are gone, as the locations of the config parser and greeter are derived from the location of the kdm executable * The config files are all located in ${kde_confdir}/kdm now; the defaults for Setup & Session were adapted to this. * The keys in kdmrc were reorganized: - [KDM]/ShutdownButton -> [X--Greeter]/(ShutdownButton & ShutdownNeedsRoot) - [KDM]/Shutdown -> [Shutdown]/HaltCmd - [KDM]/Restart -> [Shutdown]/RebootCmd - [KDM]/LogoArea -> [X-*-Greeter]/ {None,Logo,Clock} - remaining keys from [KDM] -> [X-*-Greeter]/ - [Lilo]/Lilo -> [Shutdown]/UseLilo - [Lilo]/LiloCommand -> [Shutdown]/LiloCmd - [Lilo]/LiloMap -> [Shutdown]/ - [Locale]/Language -> [X-*-Greeter]/ (Country key dropped) * KDM will no longer use kdm-config; most of its resources were absorbed into kdmrc: - Servers -> [General]/Xservers - RequestPort -> [Xdmcp]/(Port & Enable) - DaemonMode -> [General]/ - PidFile -> [General]/ - LockPidFile -> [General]/ - AuthDir -> [General]/ - AutoRescan -> [General]/ - RemoveDomainname -> [Xdmcp]/ - KeyFile -> [Xdmcp]/ - AccessFile -> [Xdmcp]/Xaccess/ - ExportList -> [General]/ - RandomFile -> [General]/ - ChoiceTimeout -> [Xdmcp]/ - SourceAddress -> [Xdmcp]/ - Willing -> [Xdmcp]/Xwilling - AutoLogin -> [General]/ - GrabServer -> [X--Greeter]/ - GrabTimeout -> [X--Greeter]/ - AuthComplain -> [X--Greeter]/ - AuthName -> [X--Core]/AuthNames - NoPassUsers -> [X--Core]/ & [X--Core]/NoPassEnable - AutoUser -> [X--Core]/(AutoLoginUser & AutoLoginEnable) - AutoPass -> [X--Core]/AutoLoginPass - AutoString -> [X--Core]/AutoLoginSession - remaining server & session resources -> [X--Core]/ * In GreetString the HOSTNAME substitution was replaced with the %%, %d, %h, %n, %s, %r & %m expandos * EchoMode does not understand "NoStars" any more. Use "NoEcho". * Defaults changed: AuthDir to /var/lib/kdm, KeyFile to $kdm_confdir/kdmkeys, Xservers to $kdm_confdir/Xservers, Xaccess to $kdm_confdir/Xaccess, Startup to $kdm_confdir/Xstartup, Reset to $kdm_confdir/Xreset, removed kde2 from SessionTypes * The previous user is now saved in $kdm_confdir/kdmsts, not kdmrc * Added option SessSaveFile, defaulting to .wmrc * Command line option changes: - -server, -udpPort, -resources, -session and -xrm are gone - -error is aliased to -logfile - -debug and -error/-logfile must be specified first - options are now accepted with both one and two leading dashes * The default Xsession will now - source ~/.xprofile if present - try harder to determine what executable $1 corresponds to - interpret "default" as ~/.xsession 2001-03-19 Oswald Buddenhagen * %DMNAME% and %DMPATH% are expanded in string resources; changed the defaults for PidFile and ConfigFile accordingly - the latter resulting in KDM now using kdm-config, NOT xdm-config * Use external config parser to merge platform-specific (that is, KDE-like) configuration data into the XDM resources; command line options -getcfg (default %DMPATH%_getcfg) and -cfg2get (no default, meaning kdm_getcfg will use $kde_confdir/kdmrc). * Changed "kde" to "kde2" in the default SessionTypes * Stolen idea for console mode handling from dtlogin; options ConsoleMode and AllowConsoleMode are gone; extension to Xservers 2001-01-19 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added resources AllowRootLogin and AllowNullPasswd 2001-01-15 Oswald Buddenhagen * Renamed UserIDLow option to MinShowUID * The LogoArea option now accepts the value "None" 2001-01-13 Oswald Buddenhagen * The GUIStyle option now works again and groks all of Qt's built-in widget styles and the "KDE" style 2001-01-11 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added placing of the greeter at fixed coordinates; options GreeterPosFixed, GreeterPosX, and GreeterPosY. * Added "default" to the default SessionTypes 2000-01-06 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added option AllowConsoleMode 2000-12-09 Oswald Buddenhagen * Added auto-login; options AutoLoginEnable, AutoLoginUser & AutoLogin1st; resources AutoUser, AutoPass, AutoString & AutoLogin1st * Added password-less login; options NoPassEnable & NoPassUsers; resource NoPassUsers * Added auto-re-login on XServer crash; resource & option AutoReLogin The kdmrc options and xdm-config resources are "ORed", i.e., if either is enabled, the function is enabled. The command line options -autolog/-noautolog and the resource AutoLogin can be used to disable auto-login and password-less login at once. * Added displaying the previously logged in user in the "Login" field; option ShowPrevious. The previous user is saved in kdmrc, section [Previous]. 2000-12-07 Oswald Buddenhagen * New XDM port from XFree86 4.0.1 - new resources SourceAddress & Willing - /authdir/authfiles is now automatically appended to AuthDir * Default for PidFile and Setup changed back to empty * Displays restarting too fast are disabled; resource StartInterval * Option UserView, and NoUsers dependency on Users being empty replaced with explicit option ShowUsers {All,Selected,None} * Made the greeter dynamically loadable (libKdmGreet.so) * Moved chooser and greeter to separate directories, same for unused stuff (misc/) * Added half-baked support for command FiFos; resources FifoCreate, FifoGroup, FifoMode. Replaced on 2001-11-02 2000-10-10 Steffen Hansen * Made kdmdesktop read the [Desktop0] section from kdmrc instead of kdmdesktoprc. 2000-09-07 Waldo Bastian * Make password echo mode configurable; option EchoMode {OneStar,ThreeStars,NoEcho} 2000-08-07 Christopher Molnar * The minimal user ID to show in the user view can be specified now; option UserIDLow. 2000-06-04 Espen Sand * The logo area can now display either a clock or a pixmap; option LogoArea {KdmClock,KdmLogo} 1999-12-12 Jaromir Dolecek * Use OS-specific defaults for Shutdown & Restart * Make PidFile, UserPath & SystemPath defaults on NetBSD match FreeBSD 1999-11-17 Harald Hoyer * Made kchooser 1999-11-15 Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel * kdmdesktop replaced with ../kdesktop/kdmdesktop. Uses new config file (kdmdesktoprc) with new options (all in section [Desktop0]): 1999-07-01 Steffen Hansen * Xaccess now accepts NOBROADCAST 1999-06-07 Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel * Added next boot OS selection via LiLo; options [Lilo] Lilo, LiloCommand & LiloMap * Added button to switch to console mode; option [KDM] ConsoleMode 1999-03-01 Stephan Kulow * Option GUIStyle temporarily removed 1998-10-08 Thomas Tanghus * [KDMDESKTOP] option changes: - BackgroundPictureTile, BackgroundPictureCenter, FancyBackground -> BackgroundPictureMode {None,Tile,Center,Scale, TopLeft,TopRight,BottomLeft,BottomRight,Fancy} - add BackGroundColorMode {Plain,Horizontal,Vertical} - BackgroundColor -> BackGroundColor1, BackGroundColor2 1998-09-20 Hans Petter Bieker * Change defaults: - Setup: "" -> XDMDIR/Xsetup - PidFile: "" -> FreeBSD: /var/run/kdm.pid, others: XDMDIR/kdm-pid - Session: "XBINDIR/xterm -ls" -> XDMDIR/Xsession - UserPath & SystemPath: no /usr/ucb for Linux & FreeBSD 1998-09-11 Hans Petter Bieker * Replace hard-coded paths with XBINDIR/XDMDIR in various defaults 1998-09-06 Hans Petter Bieker * Default Xsession now searches $1 in PATH and execs it 1998-03-26 Stephan Kulow * Nuke -tdedir cmdline option and Kdedir resource 1997-09-09 Steffen Hansen * Change defaults: - AuthDir: XDMDIR/authDir -> XDMDIR/authdir 1997-09-04 kdecvs * Change defaults: - AuthDir: XDMDIR -> XDMDIR/authDir