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 desktop enough in an enterprise setting. It's easy enough to change with a gconftool-2 invocation but "even" Apple allows its users to switch from a "click on an icon/name" login to a "type your name" login within the OS X GUI. The GNOME developers' choices are difficult to understand, IMHO.
Alan Bartlett filed a bug report upstream and you can see their response:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666220
I put together a short instruction on how to change the default behavior:
http://blog.toracat.org/2011/01/gnome-login-shows-all-valid-user-accounts-di...
... and Tom H kindly added his note. :-)
Akemi