In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as
[server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false handled=true flexible=true priority=0
After this change, Xorg would run with the -br -audit 4 -s 15 options.
Unfortunately in CentOS6 this is not the case. It completely ignores anything put into custom.conf as far as I can tell. It appears to run with -nr -verbose -auth -nolisten tcp by default. Is there any way to modify this?
Regards,
Stephen Jamieson
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:17:28 -0400 Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote:
Is there any way to modify this?
There are some gdm settings in gconf-editor (yum install gconf-editor and run it as root) but I don't know how comprehensive they are.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:17, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 stephen.jamieson.ctr@navy.mil wrote:
In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as
[server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false handled=true flexible=true priority=0
After this change, Xorg would run with the -br -audit 4 -s 15 options.
Unfortunately in CentOS6 this is not the case. It completely ignores anything put into custom.conf as far as I can tell. It appears to run with -nr -verbose -auth -nolisten tcp by default. Is there any way to modify this?
I just installed CentOS 6 on Monday and at least the daemon section was honored: I have this: [daemon] AutomaticLoginEnable=True AutomaticLogin=mythtv TimedLoginEnable=true TimedLogin=mythtv TimedLoginDelay=30
And my MythTV account logs in without delay on boot and after 30 seconds if you logout and leave the console idle.
Deyan
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:17:28PM -0400, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote:
In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as
[server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false handled=true flexible=true priority=0
After this change, Xorg would run with the -br -audit 4 -s 15 options.
Unfortunately in CentOS6 this is not the case. It completely ignores anything put into custom.conf as far as I can tell. It appears to run with -nr -verbose -auth -nolisten tcp by default. Is there any way to modify this?
Regards,
Stephen Jamieson
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 to assign your own wallpaper to the login screen, among other things.
In some releases you can hack your way around whatever the missing feature is that you're missing by using gconf-editor, in others you can't.
So, my guess is that RHEL/Centos 6 has inherited the later Gnome "features" that have removed the feature you want.
Fred
fred smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:17:28PM -0400, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote:
In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as
<snip>
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.
to assign your own wallpaper to the login screen, among other things.
Ah, yes, creeping M$-ism. Just like the urge to make stuff look more and more like the Evil Empire from Redmond, without the *option* to look like bloody Linux.
mark
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:29 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
fred smith wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:17:28PM -0400, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote:
In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as
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.
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
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
<snip>
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
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:17:10 -0400 fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.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 to assign your own wallpaper to the login screen, among other things.
There is a gconf setting to turn off the list of users. I've haven't tried it under CentOS 6, but it works under Fedora 14. I don't know how to fix the wallpaper except by changing the picture behind RPM's back. Or, up until F14, I was using a recompiled version of the CentOS 5 gdm rpm---that might work for C6.
Fortunately, the C6 wallpaper is good enough that I don't feel compelled to tweak it.
In some releases you can hack your way around whatever the missing feature is that you're missing by using gconf-editor, in others you can't.
The user list preference was broken for all of Fedora 13. Blech.
There is a long open gnome bus to restore the gdm setting tool that went away around 2.22. The chances of having it back for gnome 2 are vanishingly small. I'm not holding my breath for the gnome 3 version either.
So, my guess is that RHEL/Centos 6 has inherited the later Gnome "features" that have removed the feature you want.
It's a sad day when Mac OS X is easier to customize than a Linux system.
Jim
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 stephen.jamieson.ctr@navy.mil wrote:
In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as
[server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false handled=true flexible=true priority=0
After this change, Xorg would run with the -br -audit 4 -s 15 options.
Unfortunately in CentOS6 this is not the case. It completely ignores anything put into custom.conf as far as I can tell. It appears to run with -nr -verbose -auth -nolisten tcp by default. Is there any way to modify this?
Those options are no longer supported in GDM. I think that they were removed with GDM 2.24 (at the latest, probably 2.22) and C6 is running GDM 2.30.
You can use
[security] DisallowTCP=false
in "/etc/gdm/custom.conf" to override the "-nolisten tcp" but I have no idea about "-br -audit 4 -s 15".
"chooser=false" and "handled=true" are the default (as far as I remember what they stand for!); no idea about "flexible=true" (I can't remember what it stands is for!).
----- Original Message ----- | In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in | /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as | | [server-Standard] | name=Standard server | command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 | chooser=false | handled=true | flexible=true | priority=0 | | After this change, Xorg would run with the -br -audit 4 -s 15 options. | | Unfortunately in CentOS6 this is not the case. It completely ignores | anything put into custom.conf as far as I can tell. It appears to run | with -nr -verbose -auth -nolisten tcp by default. Is there any way to | modify this? | | Regards, | | Stephen Jamieson
much of this functionality has moved into the gconf2 stuff so you use gconf2 to disable things like user visibility and such things
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