f13 - gdm fails with no user list

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Tue Jun 1 09:09:03 UTC 2010


On Mon, 31 May 2010, Genes MailLists wrote:

> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set
> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>
>
>  So that gdm does not present user list to the world.
>
>  Rebooted - gdm screen comes up - background is there - and lower bar
> is there.
>
>   The box where I would put username / password is a thin vertical line
> 1 pixel wide ...it is impossible to login to gdm
>
>
>    reset to false and restart and its fine again.
>
>
>  known bug or is there a new way to configure gdm now ?

It looks like bug 590456
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590456

 	Michael Young


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