Jayson, I tested this out and it works great. Thanks for the help!
-- cj -- ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: Jayson Rowe <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2009 12:36:04 AM Subject: Re: How to disable display of user accounts at login prompt Jayson, Thanks for looking into this. I would definitely prefer to stick with the defaults as much as possible (i.e. gdm over something else in this case). I will give this a try. -- cj -- ________________________________ From: Jayson Rowe <[email protected]> To: Shaun McCance <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2009 11:36:13 PM Subject: Re: How to disable display of user accounts at login prompt On 05/02/2009 09:43 PM, Jayson Rowe wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Shaun McCance<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 16:56 -0700, [email protected] wrote: >>> Hello, I just joined this list so I hope I am posting my question in >>> the right place. >>> >>> I have Fedora 10 system running gnome. When the computer is booted the >>> user is presented the option to login with a list of accounts or >>> select "other". Instead I would like the user to have to type the >>> username and not be given an indication of what user accounts exist on >>> the system. This is a security requirement that may seem a bit >>> silly... nevertheless I have to comply. I assume the behaviour of this >>> login prompt is controlled by gnome and hopefully can be modified to >>> meet my requirement. If anyone knows what the specific setting is to >>> modify this bahaviour, I would greatly appreciate if you would let me >>> know. Additionally, I would like to know how to configure this option >>> from the command line or in a kickstart script. >>> >>> I googled around a little bit, but I'm either not hitting the right >>> keywords or this isn't a popular thing to do. In any case, if there is >>> documentation on this particular feature I would greatly appreciate >>> somebody pointing me in the right direction. >> There were big changes to the configuration a couple of >> release cycles back. I brought up this exact issue and >> was assured it was still possible. >> >> You'll probably get a better answer more quickly if you >> send your question to [email protected] >> >> -- >> Shaun >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list >> > > I did a search on bugzilla, and came across this: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449728 > > Which gives these directions to disable the userlist: > Workaround for greeter problem running Fedora 10 > > gconftool-2 --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \\ > --direct --type bool --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true > > I'm not at home at the moment to test this, but I can test later > tonight - but if you want to try it, hopefully this will work for you. > > I just got to my laptop running Fedora 10, and I tested this out for you - it has to be run as root (superuser, sudo - however you have your box set up), but it did work - once I ran the command, I logged out, and GDM started up asking me for a username rather than presenting the list. I hope this helps you out. -jayson
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