On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:29 PM, <m.roth at 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-disable-it/ ... and Tom H kindly added his note. :-) Akemi