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QUICK NOTES ON INSTALLATION/USE:

For security reasons a dedicated group id is needed for proper
operation! gdm assumes that the group is called `gdm'. Furthermore gdm
relies on the existence of a `nobody' user. Create these before
running make install.

You should run ``make install'' as root to get the permissions right
on the authentication directory.

Configuration is done by editing the gdm.conf file (located in
<prefix>/etc/gdm/gdm.conf). If no config file exists, make install
will create one for you.

Put your (jpg, gif, png, xpm) picture in ~/.gnome/photo to make it
appear in the face browser.

When reporting bugs you should first turn on debugging in
gdm.conf. Your syslog daemon might not log debug information per
default so you should make sure daemon.debug events are logged to a
file. Include the resulting log in your bug report.