kdm - shows all user on login screen
Hi List, is there any thing I can do to suppress the listing of all system known users on the logon screen of kdm. I think it is not a good idea to give the people a clue as wich users they might login. thx andy -- ------------------------------- mailto:Andreas.Tirok@beusen.de fon: +49 30 549932-37 fax: +49 30 549932-21
Use kdmconfig regards Guido On 18-Jan-01 Andreas Tirok wrote:
Hi List,
is there any thing I can do to suppress the listing of all system known users on the logon screen of kdm.
I think it is not a good idea to give the people a clue as wich users they might login.
thx
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 gtschakert@gmx.de wrote:
Use kdmconfig
On 18-Jan-01 Andreas Tirok wrote:
I think it is not a good idea to give the people a clue as wich users they might login.
In general, this is not a secret. "cat /etc/passwd" or "ls /home" show this information too. Peter -- Peter Münster GMV - Université de Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu - Bât. 11B 35042 Rennes Cedex Tel : +33/0 - 2 99 28 67 51 Fax : +33/0 - 2 99 28 16 74 http://w3pm.stormloader.com/
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:09:48 +0100 (CET), Peter Münster
I think it is not a good idea to give the people a clue as wich users they might login.
In general, this is not a secret. "cat /etc/passwd" or "ls /home" show this information too.
Not on my shell server. I removed world read permissions from /etc/passwd and ls /home returns "permission denied" to any shell user. I found that removing world read permissions from /etc/passwd causes many problems, but after much trial and error, I found a way to solve enough of the problems to satisfy my needs on this shell server. Egan
Andreas Tirok wrote:
Hi List,
is there any thing I can do to suppress the listing of all system known users on the logon screen of kdm.
I think it is not a good idea to give the people a clue as wich users they might login.
Are you saying all names in the passwd file are displayed or just the real users. If ALL names in /etc/passwd are shown then I bet your using kdm2. If you just don't want any displayed there is a section in rc.config to let you change what is displayed. Run SuSEconfig after chaning it. This is the section to look for in rc.config: # # space separated list of users for which icons should be shown in KDM # if empty, then take system defaults # KDM_USERS="" Don't forget to run SuSEconfig after changes. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com
is there any thing I can do to suppress the listing of all system known users on the logon screen of kdm.
I think it is not a good idea to give the people a clue as wich users they might login.
Just set in the kdmrc (it's at /opt/kde/share/config/kdmrc on my system) in the section [KDM] UserView=false Ulf ____________________________________ Ulf Leichsenring Lufthansa Systems AS GmbH Schützenwall 1 D-22844 Norderstedt Tel.: +49-40-5070-7859 Fax: +49-40-5070-7880 mailto:uleichsenring@lhsystemsas.de Internet: http://www.lhsystemsas.de
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Mark Hounschell -
Peter Münster -
Ulf Leichsenring