F13 GDM--WAS: Re: Fedora 11 GDM - unwanted list of all local users and impossible to customize?

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:32:22PM -1000, Chris Stark wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I found the solution back in Fedora 10. It's not exactly "user friendly"...
> 
> All on one line:
> 
> sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source 
> xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory -s --type=bool 
> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
> 

I tried this on my F13 this afternoon and I've just spent an hour or
more digging back out of the hole it left me in...

After making that change and rebooting (reboot is probably overkill)
it came back to the login screen with a gdm window ONE PIXEL WIDE.
I couldn't figure out how to place the mouse so I could log in.

NM is configured to bring up wireless when someone logs in, so that
wouldn't work. but by sheer chance I had previously configured the
wired network to come up on boot, so I could log in via ssh to 
poke around.

I finally "fixed" it by renaming the directory /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory
to something else then creating an empty dir of the same name.

before renaming it, I could run gconf-editor (via remote login) but it
claimed that 'disable_user_list' was read-only and wouldn't let me
change it. :(

So, it looks like either I was incredibly unlucky and accidentally
tweaked something else I shouldn't have, or else this doesn't work on
F13.

I'd love to get rid of the user list. (one wonders: just because Windoze
exposes all the users to anyone walking by, does that mean Linux therefore
must do the same stupid thing?)

Anyone else know how to turn off the user list on F13?

Thanks!
> The change should be instant... just log out and log back in.
> 
> Fedora Devs: please take a cue from the Ubuntu camp and either use a 
> sane version of GDM or fix the atrocity that is the current shipping 
> version. Gconftool is even less friendly than Windows' Registry Editor.
> 
> Aloha,
> Chris
> 
> On 08/31/2009 04:11 PM, jaivuk wrote:
> >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 <mailto: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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