GDM Greeter

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri May 2 05:12:34 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 21:59 -0700, Bob Arendt wrote:
> 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 ?  

No, fgetpwent only reads the file that it is given.

> F8's gdm is listing our whole
> company as listed by provided by NIS.  Has F9 changed this ?

Yes, F9 has changed this. The user list in F9 shows local users +
anybody who has ever logged in to this machine.




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