Bug 753447

Summary: GDM does not respect disable_user_list
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thomas Lake <tom+f>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: agentme49, anders.blomdell, igeorgex, imc, rich, rstrode, somlo
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Description Thomas Lake 2011-11-12 16:22:16 UTC
Description of problem:
GDM Facebrowser cannot be disabled

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GDM 3.2.1.1

How reproducible:
1) Attempt to disable facebrowser using gconftool
2) Log Out/Restart X
3) Observe facebrowser still enabled

Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660660

Comment 1 Anders Blomdell 2011-11-17 14:04:35 UTC
As a temporary workaround, try the following (posted upstreams as well):

su gdm -s /bin/sh -c "gconftool-2 --set --type boolean \
       /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true" 

rm /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/99-disable-user-list
cat <<EOF > /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/99-disable-user-list
[org/gnome/login-screen]
disable-user-list=true

[org/gnome/desktop/session]
session-name='gdm-fallback'
EOF
dconf update

Comment 2 Chris Cowan 2012-07-20 22:09:26 UTC
Had an issue where running `dconf update` sets /etc/dconf/db/gdm to permissions 640, and GDM would fail to load after that. Make sure you do `chmod 644 /etc/dconf/db/gdm` after `dconf update`.

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