Fedora 10 login screen

solarflow99 solarflow99 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 00:51:30 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>wrote:

>
>
>>
>> On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>
>>  On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:39:55 -0430
>>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>
>>>  You haven't said which display manager you're using. If it's gdm, the
>>>> above instructions presumably should work (I wouldn't know).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Odds are good if it is gdm changes won't take effect till you reboot
>>> or run some obscure undocumented tool to make gdm reread the
>>> config info.
>>>
>>
>> I installed gconf-editor and ran the program.     There was no
>> disable_user_list box
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> /etc/gdm/custom.conf  initially contained
>>
>>        [xdmcp]
>>        [chooser]
>>        [security]
>>        [debug]
>>
>>
>>
>> gconftool-2 --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf.xml.defaults --direct
>> --type bool --set /apps/adm/simplgreeter/disable_user_list true
>>
>> executed.
>>
>> However after a reboot,  I still have the first two accounts showing up
>> with the "Other" login on the login screen.   /etc/gdm/custom.conf has no
>> changes.  When I use gconf-editor, I still see the same entries as before I
>> issued the gconftool-2 command.
>>
>
ya, it didnt work for me either, I tried everything.  So now I just used
SLiM and dont need GDM at all.  There is no user list and its faster.
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