Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.1 user login screen can't scroll up/down

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:23:19AM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

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3. Disable the user list:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/htm...

This, in fact, *is* the correct answer. That it's enabled is bad.

1. Security. Having the username, which someone being nasty wants to break into, but doesn't know it, this is just that much easier.
2. You have over 100 users. That's annoying to scroll through. Certainly, each user *ought* to know their own username, and it's faster to type it in, than scroll down 5 or so names at a time through 100+.
3. See 1.

Pretty sure that Alan filed a bug against RH with this, but, as RH seems to do these days when sysadmins complain about Fedora-isms, it was probably ignored.

Merrily trolling,