Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?
Chris Stark
cstark at hawaii.edu
Tue Sep 1 02:32:22 UTC 2009
Greetings,
I found the solution back in Fedora 10. It's not exactly "user friendly"...
All on one line:
sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory -s --type=bool
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
The change should be instant... just log out and log back in.
Fedora Devs: please take a cue from the Ubuntu camp and either use a
sane version of GDM or fix the atrocity that is the current shipping
version. Gconftool is even less friendly than Windows' Registry Editor.
Aloha,
Chris
On 08/31/2009 04:11 PM, jaivuk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried it as well with the same negative result - it does not work.
>
> Steps I did:
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:22 AM, fred smith
> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us <mailto:fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>>
> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:41:28PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
> > 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
>
> I just tried this on my F11 laptop, following the web page you suggest,
> and I got no change at all in behavior after a reboot,... it still
> displays the list of users.
>
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