gdm-simple-greeter, redux

Josh Miller joshua at itsecureadmin.com
Fri Feb 5 19:24:42 UTC 2010


On 02/05/2010 10:13 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Does *anyone* have a clue where gdm-simple-greeter stores the usernames it
> presents? I know that it is not getting it out of /etc/passwd. based on
> users who can log in, since I have several machines where one user, who's
> rolled off, is still showing, even though /etc/passwd has him as having a
> shell that doesn't exist.

Mark,

You could try adding the problematic username to the Exclude line in 
/etc/gdm/custom.conf under the greeter section:

[greeter]
Exclude=<problem user>


HTH,
-- 
Josh Miller, RHCE/VCP
Seattle, WA
Linux Solutions Provider
Website:  http://itsecureadmin.com/




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