How to suppress database users in GDM?
Vivek J. Patankar
vivek.patankar at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 14:50:13 UTC 2009
Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> after installing commercial software (in particular database systems),
> it is not uncommon to find users in the GDM login, which I don't
> actually want. I assume that GDM treats uids > 500 as humans.
Assuming GDM inherits this particular property from the base OS,
changing UID_MIN & GID_MIN in /etc/login.defs to an appropriate higher
value should work. But this will also hide previously created "valid"
IDs from the GDM login user list.
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Regards
Vivek J. Patankar
Registered Linux User #374218
Fedora release 10 (Cambridge)
Linux 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64 x86_64
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