Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?

[fred smith]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:32:22PM -1000, Chris Stark wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I found the solution back in Fedora 10. It's not exactly "user friendly"...

Yes, works! Thanks!

> 
> 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.
> >
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