How to configure gdm to prompt for username?

[hobbieman]

Hello,

Anyone know how to configure GDM 2.26.1 to NOT display the list of users, but instead just prompt for username and password?

I tried the following (as normal user and also as root):

gconftool-2 -s /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list -t bool true

Then, I queried the value as follows:

gconftool-2 -g /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list
true

I then logged out and the list of users was still presented. I then logged back in and retried the commands above and this time I restarted the machine, and again, the userlist was presented...

Anyone know what am I doing wrong?

BTW, I am using FEDORA 11.

Thanks!

[hobbieman]

Apparently, there was a bug in FEDORA 10 and I guess it did not get fixed in 11...

The solution that worked for me is to manually edit the /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml file and set the disable_user_list entry to true.

[JEO]

Here is another way to do the same thing:

su -
gconftool-2 --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
--direct --type bool --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true