Weird F17 effect: New gdm-3.4.0.1 presents mysql server account on the login screen

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Sat Mar 31 16:40:46 UTC 2012


On 03/31/2012 05:17 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I found the code used. It is in the accountsservices package, not gdm as 
> expected.
> 
> There is a list of excluded users and any users with a shell that has 
> a basename of false or "nologin" are also excepted.
> 
> The list of excluded users is currently:
> bin, root, daemon, adm, lp, sync, shutdown, halt, mail, news, uucp, operator, 
> nobody, nobody4, noaccess, postgres, pvm, rpm, nfsnobody, pcap

Hi Bruno,

thanks for your clarification. So my proposal: why not extend this hard
coded list by a second (dynamic) one administratable by the fedora admin?

Kind regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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