Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?
jaivuk
jaivuk at googlemail.com
Tue Sep 1 02:42:52 UTC 2009
Chris,
Your solution works in F11 as well.
There is just one cosmetic thing - there is selection box saying "Other..."
- this should be removed as it has no function.
Thank you very much,
jaiv
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Chris Stark <cstark at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I found the solution back in Fedora 10. It's not exactly "user friendly"...
>
> All on one line:
>
> sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory -s --type=bool
> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>
> The change should be instant... just log out and log back in.
>
> Fedora Devs: please take a cue from the Ubuntu camp and either use a sane
> version of GDM or fix the atrocity that is the current shipping version.
> Gconftool is even less friendly than Windows' Registry Editor.
>
> Aloha,
> Chris
>
> On 08/31/2009 04:11 PM, jaivuk wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried it as well with the same negative result - it does not work.
>>
>> Steps I did:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:22 AM, fred smith
>> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us <mailto:fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:41:28PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
>> > On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, jaivuk wrote:
>> >
>> > >Hello guys,
>> > >
>> > >I did not use gdm for some time and now I'm not happy how it
>> looks in
>> > >Fedora
>> > >11.
>> > >First of all - the list of local users is unacceptable from
>> security
>> > >reasons. Even if it supports such "an " option - how it can be
>> the default
>> > >one?!
>> >
>> > Having the user list on by default makes sense for a home PC that
>> is only
>> > going to be used by one or two users, and where security is less
>> > important. There is a disable_user_list gconf option, see
>> >
>> http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/2.26/gdm.html#greeterconfiguration
>>
>> I just tried this on my F11 laptop, following the web page you suggest,
>> and I got no change at all in behavior after a reboot,... it still
>> displays the list of users.
>>
>> --
>> ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
>> <mailto:fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> -----------------------------
>> "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
>> Father,
>> Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be
>> no end. He
>> will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing
>> and upholding
>> it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever."
>> ------------------------------- Isaiah 9:7 (niv)
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> --
>> fedora-list mailing list
>> fedora-list at redhat.com <mailto:fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>> Guidelines:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
> Guidelines:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20090901/02c0a493/attachment-0001.html
More information about the users
mailing list