> It makes more sense when the "face" mode is enabled
> so you either click on a face/login name or click the button to type one in:
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13568

What ? "face mode" - this is a non-starter.

do we still remember that we have had a project called "Secure by Default" ?
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on/2006060101

"face mode" enables listing of all accounts available for login on a given 
system.
No - I do not want that and I'm pretty sure, if OSOL/Solaris.Next ever ends up 
in production use,
the people supposed to run it won't want to have that either. even the gdm(1M) 
man page
mentions that.

apparently you can restrict that sort of as gdm(1M) further mentions:

<snip>
     greeter/IncludeAll=false (boolean)

         If true, then the face browser will show  all  users  on
         the  local machine. If false, the face browser will only
         show users who have recently logged in.
<snip end>

even that is too much.

besides, I suppose that there are a lot of users out there, that do not want or
need things like "face mode", playing sound or movies on Login or similar
gadgets. Heaven, this is Unix, this is Solaris, this runs on Servers....

also letting the inital "want to login" box hanging around for some time 
eventually
places an additional error window in the inital login screen that GDM apparently
is not able to login the user automatically....ehmm...which user please ? why
would it do that by default anyways ? I've not told it todo so..

do we have to import every funny game the Gnome/Linux community comes up with ?
Concerning out of the box experience, can't we give it at least some love to 
make
this look and work a little bit like our environment ?
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