2009/3/12 fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:37:15PM +0000, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
2009/3/12 Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au:
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 11:05 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
This should work fine:
$ su - # enter root password at prompt $ GCONFSYS=$(gconftool-2 --get-default-source) $ gconftool-2 --config-source=$GCONFSYS --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list \ --type bool true
Just tried it on my F10 box and it works like a charm. You can't get rid of the "Other..." selection AFAICT, but all the other faces disappear as expected. If you want the faces back, use "false."
Doesn't change a thing, on Fedora 9. And I have rebooted. I've tried something like that before, too (as posted on this list a week or so ago), with the same lack of success.
I should make it clear that I'm not trying to hide face pictures in the chooser, I don't want any list of names.
I have a feeling that Paul's solution won't work because GDM in Fedora 9 (unless it's changed massively since I upgraded) isn't configured in GConf. You will probably find that my /etc/gdm/custom.conf solution works, because when I wrote that customisation in our organisational installer, that is what I was using.
Changing /etc/gdm/custom.conf doesn't work on F10, for sure. All it contained before I edited it was empty sections xdcmp, chooser, security, and debug. I added:
[greeter] browser=false
Sorry for the stupid question, but is that all lower-case or does it actually say Browser (I have no idea if that matters - mine is capitalised)?
I've checked our config Repo, and we have:
f10: echo "INFO: fix-config-files.sh: Disable GDM user list" gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
(that's roughly what Paul posted)
f9: Our installer attempts to configure consolehelper access to gdmsetup, which implies you still have the gdmsetup program - have you tried using it to configure the list?
I'm wondering now why my system displays just me and "Other..." - I'm going to do some playing tomorrow (on someone else's machine) and see what the difference is ;o) One of my colleagues just mentioned a feeling that GDM had been patched to automatically disable the user list if you have a lot of users, but I haven't checked if that's actually the case - can anyone confirm or deny?