Re: gdm3 exclude certain usernames
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:18:21AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 22/09/10 00:10, Rob Owens wrote:
> > I'm having trouble figuring out how to configure gdm3. I want to
> > exclude certain usernames from the login screen.
> >
> > /usr/share/gdm/gdm.schemas has a "greeter/Exclude" section, but is that
> > really where I should add my usernames to? I was expecting something in
> > /etc. Maybe it goes in /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf, but I'm not sure of the
> > syntax.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> >
>
> Disclaimer - I know nothing of gnome, but no one else has answered...
>
> I suspect you want the front-end (greeter) not the daemon but - see
> disclaimer :-)
>
> schema is "possibly" similar to 2.2, see:-
> http://live.gnome.org/GDM/2.22/Configuration
>
Thanks! That website gave me the syntax I needed. All I had to do was
make /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf look like this:
[greeter]
Exclude=myuser
All that talk of schemas had me confused. I think I must speak a
different language than the Gnome developers...
-Rob
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