> 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)? ldap/kerboros/AD. > 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 Thanks. Still not sure why, with our authentication/authorization, since if it gets it via kerboros, it would have many thousands. I'll check custom.conf, though I *thought* I'd played with that before. mark