Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Mon Aug 31 22:41:28 UTC 2009


On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, jaivuk wrote:

> Hello guys,
> 
> I did not use gdm for some time and now I'm not happy how it looks in Fedora
> 11.
> First of all - the list of local users is unacceptable from security
> reasons. Even if it supports such "an " option - how it can be the default
> one?!

Having the user list on by default makes sense for a home PC that is only 
going to be used by one or two users, and where security is less 
important. There is a disable_user_list gconf option, see
http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/2.26/gdm.html#greeterconfiguration

 	Michael Young




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