https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515108
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO |FIXED --- Comment #6 from [email protected] --- (In reply to David Edmundson from comment #5) > Lets back up first, what's the situation where you have a user that you > don't want displaying? Not sure if my personal situation matters a lot to my request, however from the top of my head I can already name some. 1. Security. I am aware that security through obscurity is not real security. But there is no reason to make it easy on anyone trying to login. If they have to guess your username as well as your password all the better. Not displaying the username also means any attacker can not even know if a user logged into the machine. 2. Privacy. Why display the username of a user on there? It is no ones business which user log into a machine or what their username is. 3. Clutter. When many users use the same machine, showing them all becomes unwieldy. For my personal case, I do no mind if people see my normal user, however I also use another account with special accesses that I do not need people to see when the login screen shows up. A combination of 1 and 2 in this case. Besides my personal use case. From the point of view of a business / professional use case. You would want to hide the users for all 3 points. That is why we actually do this on all corporate machines. Displaying the users is simply not acceptable in that setting. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
