GDM Greeter

Bob Arendt rda at rincon.com
Fri May 2 04:59:05 UTC 2008


Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 00:30 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 00:22 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 00:16 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 19:47 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You have not actually tried it, have you ? Your 10000 network users are
>>>>> not going to show up in the user list, since we only populate the list
>>>>> with local users.
>>>> How are you distinguishing local users from any other kind?
>>>>
>>> Local users are the ones you get by reading /etc/passwd.
>> So, you've got a separate reader of /etc/passwd independent of the
>> normal glibc lookup for users in gdm?
>>
> 
> No need; glibc offers fgetpwent.
> 
Doesn't fgetpwent provide all users via the methods listed for
passwd in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?  F8's gdm is listing our whole
company as listed by provided by NIS.  Has F9 changed this ?




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