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Re: gdm3 exclude certain usernames



On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:36:46 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:18:21AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:

>> 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...

That remebembers me... there used to be a GUI app to handle that (in gdm 
2.x) that one could launch with "gksu /usr/sbin/gdmsetup" but the same 
app under gdm3 lacks for many of its features (in fact, it's pretty 
minimal).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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