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

[Ray Strode]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> Anybody sees this too: After applying all F17 updates (including
> gnome-3.4... packages), the GDM login window presents the mysql
> server
> account on the login screen. Why that?
The issue arised, becase we no longer filter users less than UID_MIN in /etc/login.defs

See 

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44408

for more backstory.  We made that change because users were disappearing from their user lists
on upgrades, since the default for UID_MIN changed in Fedora.  We rationalized the change as legitimate, and the
previous behavior as wrong because UID_MIN is documented only for user creation, not for user filtering.

I think maybe the solution is to filter out disabled users from the user list.  This is a little complicated, because
we can't query the system for disabled users, afaik.  We can only do heuristics like getspnam() and look at sp_pwdp, but I don't think it will cover every case.

Anyway worth thinking about more.

--Ray