On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll(a)brown.edu>wrote:
>
> On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>
> On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:39:55 -0430
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>> You haven't said which display manager you're using. If it's gdm,
the
>>> above instructions presumably should work (I wouldn't know).
>>>
>>
>> Odds are good if it is gdm changes won't take effect till you reboot
>> or run some obscure undocumented tool to make gdm reread the
>> config info.
>>
>
> I installed gconf-editor and ran the program. There was no
> disable_user_list box
>
>
>
>
> /etc/gdm/custom.conf initially contained
>
> [xdmcp]
> [chooser]
> [security]
> [debug]
>
>
>
> gconftool-2 --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf.xml.defaults --direct
> --type bool --set /apps/adm/simplgreeter/disable_user_list true
>
> executed.
>
> However after a reboot, I still have the first two accounts showing up
> with the "Other" login on the login screen. /etc/gdm/custom.conf has no
> changes. When I use gconf-editor, I still see the same entries as before I
> issued the gconftool-2 command.
>
ya, it didnt work for me either, I tried everything. So now I just used
SLiM and dont need GDM at all. There is no user list and its faster.