[ale] too many logins

[Ted W.]

On 11/11/2014 01:39 PM, Todor Fassl wrote:
> The biggest problem is that the login screen gets crowded with the names
> of other users who have logged in recently. Students don't see the box
> to enter a different user ID so they reboot the machine which kills off
> any  matlab or sage jobs somebody else might have started. After a
> reboot, the login screen has maybe one or two names on it. There must be
> some fairly complex algorithm for determining who gets on that list
> because I cannot see a pattern.
>

Why not just remove the username list from the login screen all 
together? You didn't mention which login manager you're using but if 
it's just gdm add the following to 
/etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/01-custom-gdm-settings:

     disable-user-list=true

then run `dconf update` and restart gdm

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Ted W. <ted at xy0.org>