F13: only others user is available at login
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Sun Feb 21 17:13:53 UTC 2010
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 10:47 -0500, Mail Lists wrote:
> On 02/21/2010 08:06 AM, Antonio M wrote:
>
> >
> > Bug 566690 - after fresh install of F13, a default user is not listed in gdm
>
>
> May I suggest that displaying a list of users should be an option that
> must be turned on - and for security purposes - no users should be
> displayed at all without the admnistrator turning it on.
>
> Lists of usernames is reasonable primarily for residential use - ie
> not laptop or any other location.
>
> Lets take the lead on this one and not leak information by default.
>
> Also from a clean appearance standpoint - when no list is present (our
> new default - nudge nudge :-) can you remove 'Other' and just make the
> prompt User: instead ?
>
No, this is just a bug, a wrong default. While I appreciate security
awareness, we don't want to be paranoid-by-default.
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