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

[Chris Stark]

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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