Re: No faces in gdm browser

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Olivier Laurent wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>I'm tring to configure gdm to show faces in the face browser.
>
>After trying to figure out why there are no faces, I discovered that
>gdm does not like zsh in /etc/passwd
>
>For example:
>toto:x:1004:1004:,,,:/home/toto:/bin/zsh
>tata:x:1005:1005:,,,:/home/tata:/bin/bash
>
>tata has a face but toto has not.
>
>If I change toto to have bash instead of zsh, the browser displays
>toto's face.
>
>I'm using:
>  gdm 2.6.0.8-1
>  zsh 4.2.0-10
>
>I activated debug mode but it didn't help me.
>
>Do you have any clue on what's going on ?
>
>  
>
Perhaps this page will help:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/postlfs/etcshells.html

which basically says that gdm checks the files in "/etc/shells" to make
sure your shell if "valid"; if zsh is not in there, it won't be
considered valid by gdm.

-- 
Kent