Akemi Yagi wrote: > 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 <snip> > Alan Bartlett filed a bug report upstream and you can see their response: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666220 <snip> Wonder if it's worthwhile asking my boss to try to reopen the bug, given that a) he's a federal employee, and b) does have authority for what runs in this division.... mark, speaking only for myself, not my employer nor the US Federal gov't