Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Tom H tomh0665@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:29 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
In later Fedora releases, GDM has become less and less functional: configurability has been removed, more so as releases occur. From my (known to be flaky) memory, that includes the ability to turn off the silly list that exposes usernames right on the login screen, the ability
And that makes it inappropriate for US gov't work (violates official std), and actually anywhere that you have a concern about security.
It's pretty weird that RH didn't change the GNOME upstream default of exposing the usernames. I presume that RH doesn't care about the
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Alan Bartlett filed a bug report upstream and you can see their response:
<snip> Wonder if it's worthwhile asking my boss to try to reopen the bug, given that a) he's a federal employee, and b) does have authority for what runs in this division....
mark, speaking only for myself, not my employer nor the US Federal gov't