On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Changing the login system has a *huge* > impact on how everything works and could easily result in confusing > problems higher up the stack. Just to give a concrete example, how GDM uses PAM is highly nontrivial, involving separate processes because of PAM's ill-specified nature among other things. GDM also interacts with various complex cases like smartcards that in turn involve other system daemons. There is quite a bit happening inside GDM/PAM even on a default desktop that may not be obvious, such as how gnome-keyring saves your password to unlock the keyring. How gnome-keyring works depends on various bits of infrastructure including dbus (this is a tricky issue). NetworkManager in turn depends on gnome-keyring. So yes, swapping out the login manager could quite easily result in not being able to log in to your WPA network. It turns out an operating system is a very complex thing, and we have plenty enough bugs without people trying to replace parts of it without coordinating with consumers higher up the stack. Anyways...back to those bugs. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
