Login screen user list

James Michael Fultz croooow at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 06:19:54 UTC 2009


* Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> [2009-11-02 06:43 +0200]:
> "sudo gconf-editor" and changing the "disable_user_list" to true modifies
> /root/.gconf/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/%gconf.xml

That's because using sudo with no '-u' argument runs the command as
root, and '/root' is root's home directory.

> when the file that controls the user list is
> /var/lib/gdm/.gconf/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/%gconf.xml

And '/var/lib/gdm' is user gdm's home directory.




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