gdm

Description:GNOME Display Manager for managing graphical display servers and user logins
Homepage:https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GDM https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm
Location:Portage
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  • M - hardmask
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USE flags

  • accessibility - Add support for accessibility (eg 'at-spi' library)
  • audit - Enable support for Linux audit subsystem using sys-process/audit
  • bluetooth-sound - Allow loading of bluetooth sound modules. This may be necessary for accessibility screen readers, but may cause bluetooth sound issues for users logging in.
  • branding - Enable Gentoo specific branding
  • elogind - Enable session tracking via sys-auth/elogind
  • fprint - Enables experimental fingerprint authentication using sys-auth/fprintd
  • plymouth - Enable support for smooth transition from sys-boot/plymouth
  • selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
  • systemd - Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features like socket activation or session tracking
  • tcpd - Add support for TCP wrappers
  • test - Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
  • wayland - Enable dev-libs/wayland backend

Security Advisory

Date Severity Title
over 9 years high Multiple packages, Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in 2011
over 16 years low GDM: Local Denial of Service
almost 18 years high GDM: Privilege escalation

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