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

[Joachim Backes]

On 03/30/2012 11:28 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure? I went to /bin, made "ln -s bash mysql-bash" and changed
the login shell for the mysql account in /etc/passwd to /bin/mysql-bash,
but the login for mysql still shows up on the login screen :-)

Kind regards

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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