Bug 458162

They are listed in order of login frequency (more frequent = higher).

Interesting.   I will have to check this, but I have to wonder if this is still not at times useful information.

Frankly I don't want any names there at all.   I want someone logging in to have to know the user id.    But certainly you don't want people to be able to devine which user ids to try and break from the list.

I can definitely live with the future feature thing.   Just trying to make the product better.

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Problem still in fc11.

We need the old gdm back.

For current F12-rawhide, users appear in alphabetical order. Before, the last or most frequent user was placed as the first one and highlighted by default which allowed to select it by merely hitting <ENTER> and enter the password hereafter.
Now, one has to use mouse or arrow keys first to pick the user which wants to log in. Very annoying!

It might be a bit more annoying, but it also is MUCH MORE secure.

Of course the real fix would be to bring back the ability to program how gdm works, and to allow some people to have the user list, while others had the two blanks for user and password.   Defaulting to the user list would be certainly very acceptable.   The real problem here is the massive loss of functionality in the upgrade of gdm.

When are we going to have a programmable gdm back again?????

(In reply to comment #7)
> It might be a bit more annoying, but it also is MUCH MORE secure.

Why would this be more secure? Standard Fedora setup does not even know sudo users - there are -NO- superusers except root. You have root and only root, and that one has nothing to do with whoever using the system more often from :0 than some other user.

For work stations you might be right.   For servers, the problem is that generally you setup the as you said sudo users, and/or wheel users where wheel users are the only users who can su to root.  Also the administrative users usually have files in their directories that give lots of security information.   So you never want an outsider to know who the administrative users are.   And the reality is that users who log in at the console of a server especially regularly are the system administrators, therefore the best targets for gaining full access to the system.   This is a piece of information that you don't want a hacker to have.  

I even make it a point to assign administrators user id numbers manually and make them up higher, as the normal start with 500 assigning method means that 500 is inevitably an administrator, and the first few are almost always administrators.

This request contradicts the one in bug 531331.

IMO this request mainly means that present (2.30.x) GDM ability to custom configuration is unsuitable. And still lacks features which were in 2.20- versions from George Lebl three years ago.

Yes this is very very true.

It sure seems like GDM has become an orphaned product with greatly reduced functionality from its hay day.   Eventually we will need to start looking at other options as this one appears to be dead in the water, and very nonfunctional.

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This is still definately an issue, like about all of the problems with gdm

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