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

[jaivuk]

Chris,

Your solution works in F11 as well.

There is just one cosmetic thing - there is selection box saying "Other..."
- this should be removed as it has no function.

Thank you very much,

jaiv

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Chris Stark <cstark at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> 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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