gdmsetup

[Steve Blackwell]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:58:54 -0500
"Gregory P. Ennis" <PoMec at PoMec.Net> wrote:

> Dear List,
> 
> On older versions of Fedora we could use gdmsetup to restrict the
> logon display choices to certain users.  In other words certain users
> could be displayed as legitimate logon users and other users could be
> hidden from being displayed.
> 
> I think somewhere after Fedora 8 gdmsetup was removed from the
> package. Is there a way to do the same with F13 using the gnome gui?
> 
> Greg Ennis
> 
I believe that you can edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and use either
include=<list of users>
or exclude=<list of users>
in the [greeter] section.

I haven't tried this and the re-write of GDM cut some functionality out
so it may no longer be possible. Here's a link for you:

http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.14/configuration.html#greetersection

See section 4.2.5.

Steve

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