Johnny Hughes
2015-Apr-09 15:09 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS 7.1 user login screen can't scroll up/down
On 04/09/2015 09:51 AM, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:>> Isn't there a way to open a box for "other user"? >> >>> 3. Disable the user list: >>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Desktop_Migration_and_Administration_Guide/customizing-login-screen.html >>> >> >> This, in fact, *is* the correct answer. That it's enabled is bad. >> >> 1. Security. Having the username, which someone being nasty wants to >> break into, but doesn't know it, this is just that much easier. >> 2. You have over 100 users. That's annoying to scroll through. Certainly, >> each user *ought* to know their own username, and it's faster to >> type it in, than scroll down 5 or so names at a time through 100+. >> 3. See 1. > > Good point. I never liked the user list anyway. Wonder why the RHEL 7 > designers chose to add it?Likely because it is in Fedora and they did not take it out, and it is likely the default from the GNOME project as well. To each, their own preference. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20150409/0dbd3a59/attachment-0001.sig>
Akemi Yagi
2015-Apr-09 15:28 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS 7.1 user login screen can't scroll up/down
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:> On 04/09/2015 09:51 AM, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:>> Good point. I never liked the user list anyway. Wonder why the RHEL 7 >> designers chose to add it? > > Likely because it is in Fedora and they did not take it out, and it is > likely the default from the GNOME project as well.A request to disable the user list filed against RHEL-6 was 'denied': https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666220 So, it's not going to change... Akemi
Les Mikesell
2015-Apr-09 15:49 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS 7.1 user login screen can't scroll up/down
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >> On 04/09/2015 09:51 AM, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: > >>> Good point. I never liked the user list anyway. Wonder why the RHEL 7 >>> designers chose to add it? >> >> Likely because it is in Fedora and they did not take it out, and it is >> likely the default from the GNOME project as well. > > A request to disable the user list filed against RHEL-6 was 'denied': > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666220 > > So, it's not going to change...Kind of crazy that the reason fixing it was denied was that they wouldn't change behavior mid-revision in 6.x. And now it is still not fixed in 7.x, and a mid-rev change actually breaks things even more. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com