1 This change log contains only changes relevant to the KDM configuration,
2 startup and packaging. Bug fixes are not listed, and feature changes only
3 if they affect the configuration.
5 2007-07-08 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
7 * Improve expando support in UserLogFile. Add UserLogFallback.
9 2007-07-07 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
11 * Make out-of-$HOME xauth enforcable. Option ForceUserAuthDir.
13 2007-06-20 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
15 * Replaced dysfunct EchoMode with working EchoPasswd.
17 2006-10-12 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
19 * Removed control FiFos. Use the control sockets or kdmctl instead.
21 2006-10-07 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
23 * Added greeter theming, options Theme & UseTheme.
25 2005-08-21 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
27 * Added timed login. Option AutoLoginDelay.
28 * Added persistent auto-login. Option AutoLoginAgain.
30 2005-02-01 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
32 * Made the word splitter more sh-like. Affects HaltCmd, RebootCmd,
33 Setup, Startup, Reset, Session and Xrdb.
34 * Replaced option Xservers with StaticServers, ReserveServers,
35 ServerCmd, ServerArgsLocal, ServerArgsRemote, ServerVT and ServerTTY.
37 2005-01-31 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
39 * Added console mode that is suitable for systems with VTs (Linux).
40 Option ConsoleTTYs. The @tty spec in Xservers is irrelevant on
43 2005-01-23 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
45 * Added Grub support to boot options. Option UseLilo replaced
46 with BootManager { None, Grub, Lilo }. Removed options LiloCmd
49 2005-01-09 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
51 * Merged sessreg into kdm. Option UseSessReg.
53 2004-08-14 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
55 * Replaced dysfunct InteractiveSd with working
56 ScheduledSd { Never, Optional, Always }
58 2004-07-28 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
60 * Added control sockets. Control FiFos are now obsolete.
61 Added control socket command line client 'kdmctl'.
62 * The Setup program is now run even for automatic logins.
63 Setup, Startup and Reset have the arg "auto" for automatic logins.
65 2004-07-23 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
67 * Dynamic VT allocation added; option ServerVTs; no need to specify
68 vtX in Xservers any more.
70 2004-07-10 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
72 * GreeterPosX, GreeterPosY and GreeterPosFixed replaced with
73 single GreeterPos which is a pair of relative coordinates
75 2004-07-01 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
77 * The greeter can now run a "session preloader"; option Preloader
79 2004-04-15 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
83 - LISTEN keyword in Xaccess
84 - Changes to Enable and Port in [Xdmcp] now take effect when HUPed
85 - Support for EGD/PRNGD; options PrngdPort and PrngdSocket
87 2004-04-14 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
89 * -debug now groks additional bits for stracing and valgrinding
90 helper processes and disabling syslog usage.
92 2004-04-09 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
94 * NoPassUsers now accepts an asterisk ("*") meaning all users
96 2004-04-08 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
98 * Changes to FifoDir and FifoGroup now take effect on the global
99 command FiFo when HUPed.
101 2004-03-16 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
103 * Changed AllowClose default to true; only the default kdmrc
104 disables it for local display now.
106 2004-03-11 Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx>
108 * Sanitized UserPath and SystemPath defaults.
110 2004-03-07 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
112 * Add user name autocompletion to greeter; option UserCompletion.
113 As a side effect, "None" is gone from ShowUsers and UserList
114 appeared; ShowUsers & SortUsers affect both the user list and
117 2004-02-28 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
119 * The default Xsession no longer tries to merge kdm's PATH into the
120 one set up by the shell startup scripts. Instead, kde.desktop
121 contains a full pathname and startkde fixes up PATH if necessary.
122 * The default Xsession will emulate the startup behaviour of more
123 shells, in particular bash, zsh and csh/tcsh.
124 * Setting up the session log is now done by kdm, not the Session
125 script; option ClientLogFile.
127 2004-01-25 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
129 * Add support for specifying groups in SelectedUsers, HiddenUsers and
130 NoPassUsers. Prefix group names with a @.
132 2003-12-17 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
134 * XDMCP initiated local displays are now treated as remote displays
135 (on localhost) by the config reader.
137 2003-11-09 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
139 * Sanitized display restart behaviour; option StartInterval is gone.
141 2003-11-04 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
143 * Conversation plugins can be configured now; option PluginOptions.
144 * The "Restart X Server"/"Close Connection" action can be configured
145 away; option AllowClose.
146 * The "Console Login" action can be configured away without touching
147 Xservers; option AllowConsole.
149 2003-10-27 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
151 * KDM now complies with the input model of PAM. The greeter has an
152 interface for conversation plugins, so alternative authentication
153 mechanisms can be handled; options PluginsLogin & PluginsShutdown.
154 * Password-less and automatic logins now use a separate PAM service
155 (${KDM_PAM_SERVICE}-np).
157 2003-10-17 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
159 * Add --with-kdm-xconsole configure switch. No need to patch
160 Makefile.am to enable the built-in xconsole anymore.
162 2003-09-23 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
164 * Session types are now defined with .desktop files; consequently the
165 SessionTypes option is gone and we got SessionsDirs instead.
166 * The default Xsession now hard-wires the session types
167 - "default" to startkde
168 - "custom" to ~/.xsession
169 * The previous session type choice is now saved in a different file
170 (~/.dmrc) in a different format (ini-file); the SessSaveFile option
171 is gone. Optionally KDM can be configured to store all .dmrc files
172 in a common directory (option DmrcDir); this can be useful for AFS
174 * The location of the administratively set user faces is now specified
175 by the FaceDir option and the pictures have a .face.icon extension
176 (or .face for "natural" images, possibly photos).
178 The spec for the above changes is shared with GDM, so packagers should
179 choose common directories.
181 * The kdmsts file moved to /var/lib/kdm by default; option DataDir.
182 * Nuked the AutoLoginSession option; i don't think it was useful at all
183 and it can be emulated anyway.
185 2003-09-03 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
187 * Add option RandomDevice to override the OS specific default
190 2003-08-26 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
192 * Add random seed to forged "previous" session type calculation;
195 2003-07-15 Malte Starostik <malte@kde.org>
197 * ColorScheme is now interpreted as the base name of the .kcsrc file,
198 not the contents of its Name field.
200 2003-05-11 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
202 * GUIStyle & ColorScheme now accept an empty string, meaning
203 "built-in default". Made defaults empty, consequently.
205 2002-12-01 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
207 * Integrated chooser into greeter; external 'chooser' executable
208 and the Chooser option are gone.
209 * The chooser can be started locally (without an XDMCP query);
210 options LoginMode and ChooserHosts.
211 * Added built-in xconsole to greeter; options ShowLog and LogSource.
212 This code is not built by default; uncomment the first three lines
213 in kfrontend/Makefile.am to enable it.
214 * The DaemonMode option is gone. The command line switches -daemon and
215 -nodaemon still exist, but are mostly unnecessary, as KDM can decide
216 what to do based on the parent process ID.
217 * The AutoLogin option and the -autolog/-noautolog switches are gone.
218 * The AutoLogin1st option is gone.
219 * The position of the -debug and -logfile command line options is
220 irrelevant again. The -xrm option is back, but is ignored by the
223 2002-08-28 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
225 * Made it possible to specify the color scheme for the greeter;
228 2002-08-10 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
230 * Renamed kdmdesktop to krootimage, moved it back into the KDM source
231 tree, and changed its command line
232 * krootimage will be automatically invoked by the greeter by default;
234 * Chucked out the [Desktop0] section from kdmrc. Instead, the
235 location of the config file containing such a section is specified
236 with the BackgroundRc option.
237 * User images can now be optionally fetched from the users's home
238 directories; option FaceSource
239 * The default of the KeyFile option is now empty again
240 * GreeterScreen now groks -2, meaning upper-right screen
242 2002-08-06 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
244 * Automatically don't daemonize if started by init.
246 2002-03-19 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
248 * The default Xsession will emulate the startup behaviour of sh/ksh
249 by sourcing /etc/profile and ~/.profile.
251 2002-03-10 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
253 * Added InteractiveSd option. This is not really implemented yet,
254 so enabling it just makes KDM deny the existence of the shutdown
255 condition/timing options.
256 * The Setup script is now executed synchronously. Long-lasting
257 commands should be put in the background explicitly.
259 2002-02-28 George Staikos <staikos@kde.org>
261 * GreeterScreen now groks -1, meaning upper-left screen.
263 2002-01-14 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
265 * Added option NumLock {On,Off,Keep} to preset the NumLock modifier
266 state for the greeter
268 2001-12-11 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
270 * Added AntiAliasing option to disable antialiasing in the greeter
272 2001-11-30 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
274 * Added GreeterScreen option to put the greeter on a particular
275 screen in multi-headed setups.
276 * Changed the default of Language from "C" to "en_US"
278 2001-11-22 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
280 * The defaults of the options Xservers, Session, Setup, Startup,
281 Reset and PidFile are now back to the saner XDM defaults,
282 so KDM works even without config files.
283 * Changed option ShowUsers: All -> NotHidden
284 * Renamed the option Users to SelectedUsers and NoUsers to HiddenUsers.
285 * The GUIStyle option now groks all installed widget styles.
286 Note that Motif+ and KDE are now called MotifPlus resp. Default.
288 2001-11-02 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
290 * Added conditional/scheduled shutdown modes; options
291 DefaultSdMode and AllowSdForceNow; moved AllowShutdown from
292 [X-<dpy>-Greeter] to [X-<dpy>-Core].
293 * Added reserve display support; extension to Xservers.
294 * Added command FiFo support (see README); options FifoDir,
295 FifoGroup, [ShutDown]/AllowFifo, and [ShutDown]/AllowFifoNow.
296 FiFo location and capabilities are exported in $XDM_MANAGED.
298 2001-10-04 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
300 * Xauth files are now created in AuthDir, not AuthDir/authdir.
301 Changed AuthDir default to /var/run/xauth.
303 2001-07-12 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
305 * Renamed the option Xwilling to Willing
306 * The RandomFile option is not recognized on Linux and OpenBSD any
307 longer, as they have better entropy sources
309 2001-07-10 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
311 * Added the tool 'genkdmconf'. It's supposed to create a suitable
312 configuration for KDM during 'make install' by merging new defaults
313 with a previous XDM/KDM config (if any is found).
315 2001-07-03 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
317 * Added counterpart to the MinShowUID option: MaxShowUID
319 2001-06-23 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
321 * Xauth files are now created in AuthDir/authfiles, not
322 AuthDir/authdir/authfiles
324 2001-06-16 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
326 * Optionally put the cursor right in the "Password" field when
327 a user is preselected in the "Login" field; option FocusPasswd
329 2001-06-15 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
331 * Replaced the ShutdownButton + ShutdownNeedsRoot option pair with
332 the AllowShutdown {None,Root,All} option
334 2001-06-10 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
336 * The source directory structure changed entirely
337 * The argument to the -debug command line option is now a bit field;
338 the DebugLevel resource is gone
339 * The ErrorLogFile resource is gone
340 * The greeter module libKdmGreet.so has been converted to an
341 executable named kdm_greet; the external config parser is now
342 named kdm_config. The resource GreeterLib and the command line
343 option -getcfg (and -cfg2get) are gone, as the locations of the
344 config parser and greeter are derived from the location of the
346 * The config files are all located in ${kde_confdir}/kdm now; the
347 defaults for Setup & Session were adapted to this.
348 * The keys in kdmrc were reorganized:
349 - [KDM]/ShutdownButton -> [X-<dpy>-Greeter]/(ShutdownButton &
351 - [KDM]/Shutdown -> [Shutdown]/HaltCmd
352 - [KDM]/Restart -> [Shutdown]/RebootCmd
353 - [KDM]/LogoArea -> [X-*-Greeter]/ {None,Logo,Clock}
354 - remaining keys from [KDM] -> [X-*-Greeter]/
355 - [Lilo]/Lilo -> [Shutdown]/UseLilo
356 - [Lilo]/LiloCommand -> [Shutdown]/LiloCmd
357 - [Lilo]/LiloMap -> [Shutdown]/
358 - [Locale]/Language -> [X-*-Greeter]/ (Country key dropped)
359 * KDM will no longer use kdm-config; most of its resources were
361 - Servers -> [General]/Xservers
362 - RequestPort -> [Xdmcp]/(Port & Enable)
363 - DaemonMode -> [General]/
364 - PidFile -> [General]/
365 - LockPidFile -> [General]/
366 - AuthDir -> [General]/
367 - AutoRescan -> [General]/
368 - RemoveDomainname -> [Xdmcp]/
369 - KeyFile -> [Xdmcp]/
370 - AccessFile -> [Xdmcp]/Xaccess/
371 - ExportList -> [General]/
372 - RandomFile -> [General]/
373 - ChoiceTimeout -> [Xdmcp]/
374 - SourceAddress -> [Xdmcp]/
375 - Willing -> [Xdmcp]/Xwilling
376 - AutoLogin -> [General]/
377 - GrabServer -> [X-<dpy>-Greeter]/
378 - GrabTimeout -> [X-<dpy>-Greeter]/
379 - AuthComplain -> [X-<dpy>-Greeter]/
380 - AuthName -> [X-<dpy>-Core]/AuthNames
381 - NoPassUsers -> [X-<dpy>-Core]/ & [X-<dpy>-Core]/NoPassEnable
382 - AutoUser -> [X-<dpy>-Core]/(AutoLoginUser & AutoLoginEnable)
383 - AutoPass -> [X-<dpy>-Core]/AutoLoginPass
384 - AutoString -> [X-<dpy>-Core]/AutoLoginSession
385 - remaining server & session resources -> [X-<dpy>-Core]/
386 * In GreetString the HOSTNAME substitution was replaced with the
387 %%, %d, %h, %n, %s, %r & %m expandos
388 * EchoMode does not understand "NoStars" any more. Use "NoEcho".
389 * Defaults changed: AuthDir to /var/lib/kdm, KeyFile to
390 $kdm_confdir/kdmkeys, Xservers to $kdm_confdir/Xservers, Xaccess to
391 $kdm_confdir/Xaccess, Startup to $kdm_confdir/Xstartup, Reset to
392 $kdm_confdir/Xreset, removed kde2 from SessionTypes
393 * The previous user is now saved in $kdm_confdir/kdmsts, not kdmrc
394 * Added option SessSaveFile, defaulting to .wmrc
395 * Command line option changes:
396 - -server, -udpPort, -resources, -session and -xrm are gone
397 - -error is aliased to -logfile
398 - -debug and -error/-logfile must be specified first
399 - options are now accepted with both one and two leading dashes
400 * The default Xsession will now
401 - source ~/.xprofile if present
402 - try harder to determine what executable $1 corresponds to
403 - interpret "default" as ~/.xsession
405 2001-03-19 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
407 * %DMNAME% and %DMPATH% are expanded in string resources;
408 changed the defaults for PidFile and ConfigFile accordingly -
409 the latter resulting in KDM now using kdm-config, NOT xdm-config
410 * Use external config parser to merge platform-specific (that is,
411 KDE-like) configuration data into the XDM resources; command line
412 options -getcfg (default %DMPATH%_getcfg) and -cfg2get (no default,
413 meaning kdm_getcfg will use $kde_confdir/kdmrc).
414 * Changed "kde" to "kde2" in the default SessionTypes
415 * Stolen idea for console mode handling from dtlogin; options
416 ConsoleMode and AllowConsoleMode are gone; extension to Xservers
418 2001-01-19 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
420 * Added resources AllowRootLogin and AllowNullPasswd
422 2001-01-15 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
424 * Renamed UserIDLow option to MinShowUID
425 * The LogoArea option now accepts the value "None"
427 2001-01-13 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
429 * The GUIStyle option now works again and groks all of Qt's
430 built-in widget styles and the "KDE" style
432 2001-01-11 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
434 * Added placing of the greeter at fixed coordinates; options
435 GreeterPosFixed, GreeterPosX, and GreeterPosY.
436 * Added "default" to the default SessionTypes
438 2000-01-06 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
440 * Added option AllowConsoleMode
442 2000-12-09 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
444 * Added auto-login; options AutoLoginEnable, AutoLoginUser &
445 AutoLogin1st; resources AutoUser, AutoPass, AutoString & AutoLogin1st
446 * Added password-less login; options NoPassEnable & NoPassUsers;
448 * Added auto-re-login on XServer crash; resource & option AutoReLogin
450 The kdmrc options and xdm-config resources are "ORed", i.e., if
451 either is enabled, the function is enabled.
452 The command line options -autolog/-noautolog and the resource AutoLogin
453 can be used to disable auto-login and password-less login at once.
455 * Added displaying the previously logged in user in the "Login"
456 field; option ShowPrevious. The previous user is saved in kdmrc,
459 2000-12-07 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>
461 * New XDM port from XFree86 4.0.1
462 - new resources SourceAddress & Willing
463 - /authdir/authfiles is now automatically appended to AuthDir
464 * Default for PidFile and Setup changed back to empty
465 * Displays restarting too fast are disabled; resource StartInterval
466 * Option UserView, and NoUsers dependency on Users being empty
467 replaced with explicit option ShowUsers {All,Selected,None}
468 * Made the greeter dynamically loadable (libKdmGreet.so)
469 * Moved chooser and greeter to separate directories,
470 same for unused stuff (misc/)
472 * Added half-baked support for command FiFos; resources
473 FifoCreate, FifoGroup, FifoMode. Replaced on 2001-11-02
475 2000-10-10 Steffen Hansen <hansen@kde.org>
477 * Made kdmdesktop read the [Desktop0] section from kdmrc instead
480 2000-09-07 Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
482 * Make password echo mode configurable;
483 option EchoMode {OneStar,ThreeStars,NoEcho}
485 2000-08-07 Christopher Molnar <molnar@kde.org>
487 * The minimal user ID to show in the user view can be specified now;
490 2000-06-04 Espen Sand <espen@kde.org>
492 * The logo area can now display either a clock or a pixmap;
493 option LogoArea {KdmClock,KdmLogo}
495 1999-12-12 Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
497 * Use OS-specific defaults for Shutdown & Restart
498 * Make PidFile, UserPath & SystemPath defaults on NetBSD match FreeBSD
500 1999-11-17 Harald Hoyer <Harald.Hoyer@RedHat.de>
504 1999-11-15 Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel <hoelzer@kde.org>
506 * kdmdesktop replaced with ../kdesktop/kdmdesktop. Uses new config
507 file (kdmdesktoprc) with new options (all in section [Desktop0]):
509 1999-07-01 Steffen Hansen <hansen@kde.org>
511 * Xaccess now accepts NOBROADCAST
513 1999-06-07 Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel <hoelzer@kde.org>
515 * Added next boot OS selection via LiLo; options [Lilo] Lilo,
516 LiloCommand & LiloMap
517 * Added button to switch to console mode; option [KDM] ConsoleMode
519 1999-03-01 Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
521 * Option GUIStyle temporarily removed
523 1998-10-08 Thomas Tanghus <tanghus@earthling.net>
525 * [KDMDESKTOP] option changes:
526 - BackgroundPictureTile, BackgroundPictureCenter, FancyBackground ->
527 BackgroundPictureMode {None,Tile,Center,Scale,
528 TopLeft,TopRight,BottomLeft,BottomRight,Fancy}
529 - add BackGroundColorMode {Plain,Horizontal,Vertical}
530 - BackgroundColor -> BackGroundColor1, BackGroundColor2
532 1998-09-20 Hans Petter Bieker <bieker@kde.org>
535 - Setup: "" -> XDMDIR/Xsetup
536 - PidFile: "" -> FreeBSD: /var/run/kdm.pid, others: XDMDIR/kdm-pid
537 - Session: "XBINDIR/xterm -ls" -> XDMDIR/Xsession
538 - UserPath & SystemPath: no /usr/ucb for Linux & FreeBSD
540 1998-09-11 Hans Petter Bieker <bieker@kde.org>
542 * Replace hard-coded paths with XBINDIR/XDMDIR in various defaults
544 1998-09-06 Hans Petter Bieker <bieker@kde.org>
546 * Default Xsession now searches $1 in PATH and execs it
548 1998-03-26 Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
550 * Nuke -kdedir cmdline option and Kdedir resource
552 1997-09-09 Steffen Hansen <hansen@kde.org>
555 - AuthDir: XDMDIR/authDir -> XDMDIR/authdir
560 - AuthDir: XDMDIR -> XDMDIR/authDir