On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:29 PM, <m.roth at 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.