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

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Mar 31 17:26:57 UTC 2012


On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 18:40:46 +0200,
   Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>On 03/31/2012 05:17 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> I found the code used. It is in the accountsservices package, not gdm as
>> expected.
>>
>> There is a list of excluded users and any users with a shell that has
>> a basename of false or "nologin" are also excepted.
>>
>> The list of excluded users is currently:
>> bin, root, daemon, adm, lp, sync, shutdown, halt, mail, news, uucp, operator,
>> nobody, nobody4, noaccess, postgres, pvm, rpm, nfsnobody, pcap
>
>Hi Bruno,
>
>thanks for your clarification. So my proposal: why not extend this hard
>coded list by a second (dynamic) one administratable by the fedora admin?

I think you can as there was code to add more logins to the list. I think
it uses dconf keys to do it, which are a bit of a pain to set, especially
for gdm instead of the current user.


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