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

Phill phanback at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 2 17:17:13 UTC 2009


This works for me too! However, when I lock my screen and come back later to unlock it, it shows my user name and host name. Anyone know how to stop this behaviour?




> 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
> 


      




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