Ticket #429 (new defect)

Opened 4 weeks ago

Last modified 6 days ago

gdm-config should set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list

Reported by: broder Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: IAP 2010
Component: -- Keywords: karmic
Cc: Upstream bug:

Description

This will, predictably, disable the user list that comes up and shows the recently logged in users.

Some brief notes from #369, which has some discussion relevant to this ticket:

I'm still trying to figure out how best to config-package-deverize the Gconf configuration necessary for setting disable_user_list. Options include transforming /var/lib/gdm/.gconf.path to add another source, or transforming /var/lib/gdm/.gconf.defaults directly. Of course, since /var/lib/gdm isn't world-readable, either mechanism is going to require a debathena-gdm-hack (a la cupsys-hack), which will suck.

Change History

Changed 6 days ago by rbasch

/var/lib/gdm/.gconf.path includes /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system as a readonly source, so we could set it there via a postinst script.

Changed 6 days ago by broder

I really would much rather find a way to do the gconf config using config-package-dev instead of doing things in the postinst. Unlike with cluster-login-config, it's important that gdm-config uninstall itself cleanly.

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