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

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 23:29:08 +0300,
   cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com> wrote:
>2012/3/30 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com>
>
>> why not offer to 'root' user a list of users that can be displayed or not
>on gdm? why not filtering out by defaul the famous non-human users, like
>mysql and postgresql?

You can change the shells of these accounts and they won't show up anymore.
If you want to keep the effective shell the same, you can make a sym link
to /bin/sh or /bin/bash and if it isn't in /etc/shells then those accounts
won't show up in the login window.