List of user accounts

Maura Dailey maura at eclipse.ncsc.mil
Wed Oct 17 22:05:57 UTC 2012


On 10/17/2012 05:47 PM, Shawn Wells wrote:
> On 10/17/12 5:34 PM, Shawn Wells wrote:
>> On 10/17/12 4:45 PM, Andrew Gilmore wrote:
>>> What is the proper way to disable RHEL6's user account list? See 
>>> this bug:
>>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666220
>>> Is this setting something that needs to be checked?
>>>
>>
To make settings stick for the gdm user/GDM, settings have to be written 
to the gdm user's home directory. Sudo lets you run commands as another 
user.

>> to turn off:
>> gconftool-2 -s /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>>
When setting a value, you have to specify the type:
   sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 -t boolean -s 
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true

>>
>> to validate:
>> gconftool-2 /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list
>
> that should be gconftool-2 -g /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list
>
Run it as the gdm user to make sure it's reading from the correct 
settings directory:
   sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 -g /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list

>> Expected output should return a line that says "true" 
>

This value can also be read directly from 
/var/lib/gdm/.gconf/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/%gconf.xml.

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