Thanks for the tip. I looked into this some more and learned I could easily change the login display manager. I switched to "slim" which behaves exactly as I intended (tested on a development machine). However, I am still interested in seeing if this is more easily done in gdm (this is for a LiveCD and I'm trying to reduce quantity of packages, disk space, and configuration complexity anywhere possible). I will join the gdm list if my LiveCD test with slim has issues.
From: Shaun McCance
<shaunm gnome org>
To: juszak yahoo com
Cc: gnome-list gnome org
Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2009 8:25:32 PM
Subject: Re: How to disable display of user accounts at login prompt
On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 16:56 -0700,
juszak yahoo com wrote:
> Hello, I just joined this list so I hope I am posting my question in
> the right place.
>
> I have Fedora 10 system running gnome. When the computer is booted the
> user is presented the option to login with a list of accounts or
> select "other". Instead I would like the user to have to type the
> username and not be given an indication of what user accounts exist on
> the system. This is a security requirement that may seem a bit
> silly... nevertheless I have to comply. I assume the behaviour of this
> login prompt is controlled by gnome and hopefully can be modified to
> meet my requirement. If anyone knows what the specific setting is to
> modify this bahaviour, I would greatly appreciate if you would let me
>
know. Additionally, I would
like to know how to configure this option
> from the command line or in a kickstart script.
>
> I googled around a little bit, but I'm either not hitting the right
> keywords or this isn't a popular thing to do. In any case, if there is
> documentation on this particular feature I would greatly appreciate
> somebody pointing me in the right direction.
There were big changes to the configuration a couple of
release cycles back. I brought up this exact issue and
was assured it was still possible.
You'll probably get a better answer more quickly if you
send your question to
gdm-list gnome org--
Shaun
