Questions tagged [gdmgreeting]

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Is it possible to limit the number of previous users on login screen in centos?

I'd like to customize the login screen on CentOS to limit the number of users displayed? I know how to disable the user's list by customizing the dconf gdm db but I wonder if I can set a limit value...
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Blank black screen with cursor after login -- RHEL5

I have a RHEL 5 machine here which is a Dell Precision T3500. I'm an Ubuntu guy, but I'm having a heck of a time with this machine. After processing its first security update, we cannot log in via the gdm greeter. A new kernel was installed; then I…
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Triggering GDM login on a remote machine

I have to briefly describe the situation. We are planning to make a computer classroom with workstations running Ubuntu 10.04. Since making accounts for each student has not been considered reasonable, we decided to make accounts for each student…
user54755
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CentOS 6 - Remote GDM doesn't come up automatically

I have a bunch of systems running different subreleases of CentOS 6, at different update levels. All of these machines have been configured to allow remote graphical sessions via GDM by adding the following settings to…
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Disable gdmgreeter in RHEL 5?

I would like to disable the "gdmgreeting" application that is a graphical frontend, as I only want console interfaces. This application runs on vt7 and restarts every time after I manually kill it. I have no desktop environment installed (gnome,…
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Accessing KRB5CCNAME from /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default on RHEL8

I would like to run a script after a user login. This script, using his kerberos tickets, will mount an SMB share. Under RedHat 7 I could simply call the script from /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default and it would run fine. It would even preserve the…