how to disable GDM to show all users

[freepaddler]

Hi

i'm new to GNOME and hope someone can help me

i have freebsd 8.0 release p2 installed, gnome2-lite 2.28.2_1, gdm 2.28.2_1

while the gdm login screen appears, it show all the users i have in the system. is there any option to exclude users from gdm listing? a have lot's of users and it is really not easy to find myself in the list

thx in advance

 

[SirDice]

Do as root:

su - gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true

 

[freepaddler]

hmm, this is what i have

root@keeper ~# su - gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/gdm/simple-greeting/disable-user-list true
This account is currently not available.

 

[SirDice]

Oh right, that account is disabled by default. Have a look in this thread.

 

[freepaddler]

thanks! just found where to write it manually.

 

[agnel_kurian]

And where do I write it manually? Please let me know.

 

[agnel_kurian]

Configuring GDM via Configuration Editor

I tried setting /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list via the "Configuration Editor" under GNOME after logging in as root but this failed to do the trick.

From what I understand, this only applied settings to the root user whereas we need to set the "disable_user_list" setting for the gdm user. I right clicked on "disable_user_list" and selected "Set as Default" which caused the setting to be made for all users including gdm. That finally got rid of the user list.

But how do I make this setting for user gdm only? Running gconftool-2 as user gdm gave me errors:

192# su -m gdm -c "gconftool-2 -a /apps/gdm/simple-greeter"
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
Abort
192#

 

[agnel_kurian]

I added the settings to /usr/local/etc/gdm/home/.gconf/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/%gconf.xml. Works.