Bob Doolittle schrieb: > Brian Cameron wrote: >>> What about when NIS or LDAP is in use ? Do we really want GDM attempting >>> to display 38,000+ accounts ? >> As I explain above, this should not be an issue. > > In a server-based (e.g. thin client) desktop environment, the number of > users who have ever utilized a server could still wind up in the > hundreds or thousands.
I don't know if GDM does that now, but with ck-history, the selection could be only users that have logged in to the current 'seat'. In a Sun Ray environment it would require proper integration (so that Sun Ray client ids are mapped to unique ConsoleKit seat ids) to make that useful. But an RFE to allow configuring a limit for how many users to take from the history or a console-kit feature to expire the history database so it doesn't grow boundlessly may also be ways to limit this. > That's a lot of faces. There should be some upper > limit, beyond which the face browser isn't utilized since it becomes > impractical. There's also a $HOME access delay per user, if pictures are > stored in $HOME. That could become substantial at some point > particularly in an NFS-mounted $HOME environment. > Fortunately the $HOME issue appears to be on its way of being addressed. > It's always possible for sites to turn off the face browser, but of > course better if it were more intelligent and adaptive as above. > - J?rg -- Joerg Barfurth phone: +49 40 23646662 / x66662 Software Engineer mailto:joerg.barfurth at sun.com Desktop Technology http://reserv.ireland/twiki/bin/view/Argus/ Thin Client Software http://www.sun.com/software/sunray/ Sun Microsystems GmbH http://www.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem/
