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Bug 318546 - Gdm face browser should not show users with shell=/bin/false
Gdm face browser should not show users with shell=/bin/false
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.8.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-10-11 08:12 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2006-02-28 14:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-10-11 08:12:51 UTC 
This bug has been opened here: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17543

"Where I work we have a centralized ldap database containing all the users able
to access some components of our network (shell access, mail, CRM, etc.).
The users allowed to have a shell login are very few, while the others are a lot
and have /bin/false as their default shell.
I think that gdm's face browser should not show the people that won't be able to
login, but only the enabled ones.
This could maybe be made just checking the user's shell against /etc/shells on
the machine on which gdm runs."
Comment 1 Brian Cameron 2005-10-12 20:48:02 UTC 
The Face Browser can be configured to specify which users show up using the
Include gdm.conf variable.  This might work better than using IncludeAll.  
I would accept a patch that changed the FaceBrowser to not show users without a
shell when IncludeAll is being used.
Comment 2 Alessandro Gervaso 2006-02-28 14:11:49 UTC 
The current version seems to have solved this, nice job.
I'm the original reporter.
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2006-02-28 14:40:14 UTC 
Closing as fixed so, thank you