On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org>
wrote:
On 03/19/2018 08:36 AM, Kamil Paral wrote:
> What's even worse, there's no obvious way to disable this even for
> those advanced users. There's no config file in /etc you could edit
> and adjust. "sudo gsettings" (for setting the right key globally)
> fails with an error. How do GNOME devs expect users to configure this?
> What do we tell them? Or is ssh a no longer supported use case on
> Workstation?
>
It's definitely supported, this is just a bug... albeit, a nasty bug I
have no clue how we should fix.
Try setting a password for the gdm user, log in on a console, and use
gsettings there. Does that fix it? Probably?
Can you report another separate issue for this?
I've reported the issue as:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1558485
so that I could nominate it as a prioritized bug.
The solution could be either to implement it as a global system-wide option
that only admin users can set and it applies system-wide (all users, gdm),
or keep it as a per-user option but allow admin users to configure the
global value as well (the same way regional settings can be set for the
"logging screen"). Even the same paradigm as with regional settings can be
used (which I'm not very fond of, but whatever) - when there's only a
single user configured on the system, the option looks like local, but
affects the whole system, and when multiple users are configured, it splits
into local and global option.