That's great news, and I look forward to testing it. Unfortunately, due
to a snafu here at work, we have no active RHN subscriptions, which
might be the reason the RHEL 7 beta hasn't been getting updates (unless
I'm misunderstanding how the RHEL 7 beta is meant to operate).
- Maura Dailey
On 02/25/2014 12:03 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 11:41:51 AM Maura Dailey wrote:
> disable-user-list has been set to true in my testing, and the box is
> still ridiculously tiny and at the very bottom of the screen.
I was told this is a known problem:
bz 1061996 - Modify GDM to present a sufficiently visible login banner in RHEL7
and its fixed in gnome-shell-3.8.4-24.el7
-Steve
> I wouldn't
> mind an interstitial screen, actually, because it would probably mean
> the text could be displayed with the same size font as the login
> prompts. The security auditors around here prefer to see the banner
> before the user login process begins. It's the way that RHEL 6, Mac OS
> X, and Windows handles it currently. That doesn't mean I can't talk them
> around to showing it halfway through the process, but it is irksome that
> Gnome 3 is switching the order around, apparently for aesthetics.
>
> I did file an RFE, if only to get some official suggestions, but I'm
> going to start pursuing how much of the appearance is controlled by the
> theme and how much is configurable. Making the text a brighter color
> instead of a light grey would be a huge improvement all by itself.
> However, if the box size is not configurable, then making the text
> bigger might be painful to scroll through.
>
> - Maura Dailey
>
> On 02/24/2014 07:33 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Missed this section...
>>
>> On Monday, February 24, 2014 06:07:22 PM Maura Dailey wrote:
>>> On a related note, the login banner text only displays AFTER users have
>>> put in their user name, and there appears to be no way to edit the
>>> consent banner's appearance without altering the GDM theme. Instead,
>>> it's scrunched into a tiny window, with tiny grey text on a grey
>>> background, with a scroll bar. Is it too late to put this on my RHEL 7
>>> final release wish list or can someone point me to the correct settings?
>> There are a couple settings here that we care about. One is you need to do
>> this to to avoid leaking accounts:
>>
>> disable-user-list=true
>>
>> I know the gnome developers were concerned about the real estate available
>> when the user list was being shown + a banner. Not sure how it finally
>> ended up as I recall hearing them say they might kick it to an
>> interstitial screen if there was not enough room because the text was too
>> large or users were being displayed.
>>
>> That said, when I worked at NASA, we had machines where you logged in, it
>> went to an interstitial page where you accepted the consent to be
>> monitored, and if not it kicked you back to the login screen. If you
>> accepted, you got the whole CDE desktop. The point being that you
>> couldn't do any real work until you accepted and it did kick you out such
>> that you couldn't do anything unless you accepted. So, if gnome follows
>> that...it might be different than rhel6, but still valid as a work flow.
>>
>> -Steve