At Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:13:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Does *anyone* have a clue where gdm-simple-greeter stores the usernames it > presents? I know that it is not getting it out of /etc/passwd. based on > users who can log in, since I have several machines where one user, who's > rolled off, is still showing, even though /etc/passwd has him as having a > shell that doesn't exist. Are you running yp, or ldap (ie a network authentification server)? gdm-simple-greeter gets the usernames from the same place as login... If you are just using shadow passwords (eg /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group), gdm-simple-greeter will use the user names in /etc/passwd. There is a setting in /etc/gdm/custom.conf that lists the usernames to include (usuall all/*) and to exclude (various non-user 'usernames' like nobody, bin, daemon, etc.). I doubt that gdm-simple-greeter checks to see if users in /etc/passwd have 'valid' shells, which is why there is an exclude option > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/