Re: CentOS 7.1 user login screen can't scroll up/down

[Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:23:19AM -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > 3. Disable the user list:
> > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Desktop_Migration_and_Administration_Guide/customizing-login-screen.html
> 
> This, in fact, *is* the correct answer. That it's enabled is bad.
> 
> 1. Security. Having the username, which someone being nasty wants to
>      break into, but doesn't know it, this is just that much easier.
> 2. You have over 100 users. That's annoying to scroll through. Certainly,
>      each user *ought* to know their own username, and it's faster to
>      type it in, than scroll down 5 or so names at a time through 100+.
> 3. See 1.

Pretty sure that Alan filed a bug against RH with this, but, as RH seems to
do these days when sysadmins complain about Fedora-isms, it was probably
ignored.  

Merrily trolling,


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