GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 614017
gdm disable_user_list does not display login banner
Last modified: 2013-12-16 20:35:32 UTC
When you add a login banner to gdm version 2.28.1 via: sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 -s /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_text_nochooser --type string "Authorized users only" sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 -s /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_text --type string "Authorized users only" sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 -s /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_enabled --type bool 'true' The banner displays fine. However, if you also disable the user list the banner is no longer displayed: sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 -s /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list --type bool 'true' Occurs in 9.10 Desktop and Netbook remix. Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 I expected the banner to display even if the user list does not display. This is a corporate setting and both settings are required. I have not checked new versions of gdm.
Note that the GConf key is: /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_enable Not "banner_message_enabled".
Hi That was a typo on my part. I reviewed the original script I used that encountered the issue and I did use "/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_enable" Tim
I can confirm this problem on Ubuntu 10.4 - the banner text does not display if the user list is displayed. gconftool-2 2.28.1
This does not seem to affect gdm 2.30.0-0ubuntu5, the no_chooser version seems to work.
In Ubuntu Lucid, the banner text does not display if the user list is disabled. <entry name="banner_message_enable" mtime="1291403415" type="bool" value="true"/> <entry name="disable_user_list" mtime="1291403496" type="bool" value="true"/> <entry name="banner_message_text" mtime="1291403612" type="string"> <stringvalue>This is the GDM banner text.</stringvalue> </entry>
I can confirm Josef's remark that setting /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_text_nochooser has the desired results.
this is obsolete now. gnome-shell provides the login screen.