Re: How to disable display of user accounts at login prompt

[Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com>]

On 05/02/2009 09:43 PM, Jayson Rowe wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Shaun McCance<shaunm gnome org>  wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 16:56 -0700, juszak yahoo com 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 gdm-list gnome org
> >
> > --
> > Shaun
> >
> >
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> 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