Greetings,
Believe me, I would love to get rid of the silly "Other..." entry, but I
have no idea how, aside from diving into the source code and commenting
it out.
As much as I love Fedora (I've been using it as my primary desktop since
it was Red Hat 7.2), it's really shocking that GDM has been so bad for
so long. The defaults are unusable for systems in a public setting, and
they hardly make sense for a personal system if one has any regard for
security or privacy.
I'm not a huge fan of Ubuntu, but GDM is one thing they got very right
compared to Fedora. Fedora Devs: Please, please, please fix it! :)
Aloha,
Chris
On 08/31/2009 04:42 PM, jaivuk wrote:
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@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:cstark@xxxxxxxxxx>> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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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