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

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
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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