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Richard Vickery richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com
Wed Jul 10 04:03:57 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Richard Vickery
<richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 2013-07-09 16:12, Richard Vickery wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 9, 2013 1:23 PM, "Michael Knepher" <mknepher at bluethingy.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>  >
>>>  > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Karel Volný <kvolny at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>  >>
>>>  >> Dne úterý, 9. července 2013 16:24:11 CEST, Michal Jaegermann
>>>  napsal(a):
>>>  >>
>>>  >>> OTOH I really dislike to advertise too wide who is just sitting
>>> by a
>>>  >>> keyboard.  If you want to call that paranoiac then so be it but
>>>  >>
>>>  >>
>>>  >> I don't argue about the configurability, if you prefer to have it
>>> hidden, let's allow to hide it
>>>  >
>>>  >
>>>  >>
>>>  >> I'm just wondering what exact security benefit it adds
>>>  >
>>>  >
>>>  > If you're referring to the ability to remove the user name from the
>>> gnome-shell top bar, it's probably better described as a "privacy"
>>> feature (which is what the setting is under in gnome-3.8). Any benefit
>>> would primarily be subjective to each individual user.
>>>  >
>>>  > Michael Knepher
>>>  >
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>>> What is the command to add / subtract the users list? This lets the
>>> end user decide her / his / their preferences.
>>
>>
>> You need to flip the dconf key apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list in
>> a way that gdm will recognize. I don't know if there's an Official Way to do
>> that, perhaps Matthias or Ray could advise.
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1659325 has a rather hacky
>> way which may work but which I wouldn't entirely advise...
>>
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>
> Thanks Adam.
>
> The command was written as true; should I have written false into the
> command line?

I suppose I will find out the next time I boot up the computer! :-)


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