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Re: gdm3 exclude certain usernames



On 22/09/10 17:04, Camaleón wrote:
> 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,
> 

Which remembers me -  When I was doing a bit of a search last night I
came across comments to the effect that gdm-setup(?) functionality
"will" become part of the new Gnome shell.

...and my claim to know nothing of Gnome is not entirely correct - I am
given to understand that it's some sort of a mouse house that you get if
you install the stock Debian using the Enter key ;-p

Cheers

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