Re: Removing user list from login screen.

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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:42:29 -0500, Aaron wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 19:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:46:10 -0500, Aaron wrote:
> > 
> > > How can you rmove the list of users that can login from login screen?
> > > 
> > > .gconf/apps/gdm/simplegreeter/disable_user_list=true
> >   ^^^^^^^
> > What is this?
> It is a directory present in your home directory that can be manipulated
> using gconf-editor program. gconf-editor is File->System
> Tools->Configuration Editor I will admit it is simple-greeter not
> simplegreeter.
> > 
> > > does not work neither do the other simple_greeter options.
> > 
> > What is the exact command you used to set the disable_user_list Boolean?
> You execute gconf-editor and go to simple-greeter
> 
> You run gconf-editor (or Configuration editor which allows you to
> manipulate the parameters in the simple-editor (really and XML file)
> Or you can go down the directory tree above and edit the XML file
> directly.

Okay, I assumed you had fiddled with the files in .gconf directly somehow
getting it wrong, because you didn't mention gconf-editor or gconftool. ;)

With the warning posted elsewhere in this thread that changing the setting
exposes a fatal bug (bz 590456), this is one quick way to set the flag:

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list --set --type bool true
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