GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 601590
Don't respect /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/exclude GConf key
Last modified: 2009-11-11 21:32:25 UTC
According to GDM documentation[1] the /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/exclude GConf key can be used to exclude some users from appears in greeter. Unfortunately, running the following command, there is no effect (even restarting gdm service) sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/exclude --type list --list-type string "[betatester]" Please also note this key, as well as "include" and "include_all" in the same gconf directory, don't appear running gconf-editor (as simple user or as gdm user), maybe due to missing schema PS This occurs on Ubuntu 9.10 [1] http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/configuration.html.en#greeterconfiguration
Apologies, but the documentation is wrong. We tried to get this feature into GDM 2.26 at the last minute, and backed it out after there was some disagreement about how the configuration interfaces should work. The docs were updated to reflect the new feature, but I forgot to backout the documentation when I backed out the code which implements the feature. Actually, the code is about to go into GDM 2.29, but with different (and more backwards compatible) configuration options. So, the documentation is corrected in GDM 2.29 to remove this incorrect information about these features being available. Apologies for the confusion.