gdm - displaying of information/ F10

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 22:50 -0500, Mail Lists wrote:
> Our policy is to minimize information leakage - we recently switched
> from kdm/kde to gdm/gnome and I cannot find how to adjust gdm greeter to
> achieve :
> 
> 
>   (1) stop list of users displayed

Run this from the command line:
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory -s
--type=bool /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true

> 
>   (2) stop last user being displayed

Should automatically work if you don't see a user list.
> 
>   (3) control the banner/logo content

Haven't tried this, don't know how to make it work.

If you make the change in (1), then when you log in, all you'll see is
the "Other" selection, which you then click on and type in the username
and password.

Jonathan
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