[CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> On Friday, July 22, 2011 12:22:31 PM Gerhard Schneider wrote:
>>
>> Using gdm is getting harder and harder but you can try:
>>
>> gconftool-2 --direct \
>>   --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
>>   --type bool --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>>
>> There are many features available via gconftool-2 or gconf-editor only.
>
> Some are only available if you run them as the right user, as well.
> If I'm not mistaken, for gdm that would be the user 'gdm'.
> So you need to run that above as user gdm with su -c $command gdm
> or similar.

You can use "sudo -u gdm gconftool-2
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list --set --type=boolean true"
because the "gdm" user controls the login screen but the above works
too because it makes that setting default for all users. You can also
make it mandatory with "gconftool-2 --config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list --set --type=boolean true".