Frank: > Something else that is puzzling - there doesn't seem to be any > password combination I can get to work that lets you administer > gdm from the gdm login form. When I installed, I made the mistake > of not making the primary user root, and the distinction between > roles and users is pretty confusing, especially since you can log > on as root (role or user?) locally, but not, it would seem, > remotely. Maybe there's a good tutorial about this somewhere, but > in the meantime it isn't clear which password to use, although in > this instance neither seem to work.
GDM only displays the login configuration program (gdmsetup) in the menus if the greeter/SystemMenu and greeter/ConfigAvailable GDM options are set to true. Also, you should be able to run gdmsetup if you su as root and just run gdmsetup from the command line, or run "pfexec gdmsetup". You can read more here: http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/2.20/configuration.html.en Brian
