install configuration editor 2.28.0

yum install gconf-editor.x86_64

go to gdm in the tree view and expand

click simple-greeter

right click disable_user_list and choose set as default (enter root pw)

right click disable_user_list and choose set as mandatory (enter root pw)

logout

On 06/06/2014 10:39 AM, David Both wrote:

Switch to KDM instead of GDM as the default display manager. This will change the login screen and require typing a username which is much more secure. It will not change your desktop but you may have to select GNOME or KDE the first time you log in if you have both installed.

On 06/06/2014 10:34 AM, Wes James wrote:

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I've looked around in the menus and googled this, but I can't find a way to make the login require a username instead of just showing the available users to select from. Where do I change this? I'm using CentOS 6.5.

Thanks,

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Lars Hecking wrote:

Wes James writes:

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I've looked around in the menus and googled this, but I can't find a way to make the login require a username instead of just showing the available users to select from. ??Where do I change this? ??I'm using CentOS 6.5.

I'm surprised you cannot find this. It's a very popular topic across all OSes and distros that run Gnome.

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-July/115120.html

Alternatively, you can edit /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml directly.

Right, if the next release/subrelease doesn't change where the file is, and of course editing .xml files is sooo much better than, say, plain text files.

Or, as someone suggested, you could use kdm for login, and right *there* it offers you a choice of which window manager to use, as opposed to gnome, that wants to lock you in, like, say, someone north of Seattle....

mark "me? anti-gnome?"