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

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Hi,

I tried it as well with the same negative result - it does not work.

Steps I did: 

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:22 AM, fred smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:41:28PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, jaivuk wrote:
>
> >Hello guys,
> >
> >I did not use gdm for some time and now I'm not happy how it looks in
> >Fedora
> >11.
> >First of all - the list of local users is unacceptable from security
> >reasons. Even if it supports such "an " option - how it can be the default
> >one?!
>
> Having the user list on by default makes sense for a home PC that is only
> going to be used by one or two users, and where security is less
> important. There is a disable_user_list gconf option, see
> http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/2.26/gdm.html#greeterconfiguration

I just tried this on my F11 laptop, following the web page you suggest,
and I got no change at all in behavior after a reboot,... it still
displays the list of users.

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