Re: [gdm-list] gdm username history

[Bob Doolittle <Robert Doolittle Sun COM>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Jehan PROCACCIA
> <Jehan Procaccia it-sudparis eu> wrote:
>   
> > Hello, since we updated our 200 machines parc to fedora-9 and
> > gdm-2.22.0-8.fc9.i386, username login history keeps growing on the login
> > console .
> > It has a very anoying drawback to keep autofs  homedirs to be present in
> >  /etc/mtab and hence generating every minutes a umount/mount due to the use
> > of autofs/nfs homedir . Then the nfs server is overloaded by rpc.mountd and
> > everything becomes very slow.
> >
> > How can I tell GDM not to keep an history of previously login users ?
> >     
> I think the quick and dirty way is to make /var/log/ConsoleKit/history
> non-writable

Please do file a bug in any case. You're not the only person affected by 
this. This will be a big issue when GDM is used for multi-user systems 
such as thin client servers which may have hundreds of users and on 
which display numbers may be assigned non-deterministically. There needs 
to be a way to turn off login history within gdm.

-Bob