On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 11:34 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 6 January 2011 09:51, Peter Miller <pmil...@opensource.org.au> wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Does anyone know the criteria that gdm greeter uses to generate its list
> > of users? I want to remove some and add others.
>
> http://askubuntu.com/search?q=gdm+user+list
> in particular
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/2471/how-to-hide-users-from-the-login-screen
By it's nature, this is a tough query: synonyms of hide/ exclude/
missing/ absent, and user/ login/ icon, mean there is more noise than
signal in search engine results.
To exclude users from the list, I edited /etc/gdm/custom.conf to add
[greeter]
Exclude=buildd
Reading the gdm sources, there is another "Include" item as well, but it
is censored the same way as the getpwent iteration is censored, making
it useless (and largely undocumented, in such documentation as does
exist).
The absent users all had UIDs below 1000 (file system started over a
decade ago), and this can be fixed in the /etc/login.defs file to change
UID_MIN 200
Now I'm happy... happier. Reading the source should not have been
necessary.
$ man gdm
No manual entry for gdm
See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not
available.
$
Debian Policy says "Bad package! Off to the Spankers!"
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