Hello there,

in Squeeze (stable, gdm3: 2.30-5) I used to configure gdm3 via
/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf.

Currently this does not work any more in Wheezy (testing, gdm3: 3.0.4-4):

User s2 (with "realname" s2, too) is visible in gdm3 as an available user - but
it should not because it is excluded in daemon.conf.
IncludeAll=false doesn't seem to change anything, too.

Possibly this bug is related to #618294

Thank you for attention,
Christian Meyer

Hi

Still an issue. These options are just ignored

The same behaviour is still found in release 3.4.1-9+b1 — the “Exclude”
option is ignored.

The GDM documentation for GDM versions 3.4, 3.8, and 3.10 all say:

    Exclude

    […]

    Set to a list of users to always exclude in the Face Browser. This
    value is set to a list of users separated by commas. Note that the
    setting in the custom.conf overrides the default value, so if you wish
    to add additional users to the list, then you need to set the value to
    the default value with additional users appended to the list.

    <URL:https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/3.4/configuration.html.en#greetersection>
    <URL:https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/3.8/configuration.html.en#greetersection>
    <URL:https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/3.10/configuration.html.en#greetersection>

so, GDM is not behaving as documented.

Hello all,

since this bug is known since 3 jears and still appears in stable jessie I now
found a workaround to suppress all users to be shown:

Just uncomment the line
disable-user-list=true
in /usr/share/gdm/dconf/90-debian-settings

After that only the username and password can be entered, but no sensible
userlist is shown.

BTW: #688741 is a duplicate of this bug and has been forwarded to upstream in
2012, too. No response till now:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684773

Christian