Too Many Users at X Login Prompt

JavaCowboy · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 13

There are too many users at the XWindow prompt, including, among others: portage, cron, etc. How do I set it up so that only my user and root appear?

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

You dont say what display manager you are using, however I am guessing that it is kdm.

Open kcontrol, click system maintenance, then click login manager. You will be able to remove all those extra logins and display only the ones you want.

You dont need to be in kde to do this, you can simply type kcontrol in an xterm window and it will open. You will need to be root to change the login settings and that is accomplished by clicking the "adminstrator mode" button on the bottom of the screen after opening the kdm dialog. You will have an opportunity to put in your root password

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plate · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 1:28 am Post subject:

Or you could simply edit /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, enter all the users you explicitly want to be shown in the login window and hide everyone else:

JavaCowboy · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 13

Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm using xdm.

JavaCowboy · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 13

Just out of curiosity, how would I would change my display manager to kdm?

IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

edit /etc/rc.conf

look (w/ nano ctrl-w) for DISPLAYMANAGER

change the value from xdm to kdm

JavaCowboy · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 13

The problem is fixed. I was actually in kdm and I simply did a:

kdesu kcontrol

Then I went into System > Login Manager

Then I clicked the Users tab and simply changed the Show Users section from "All but no-show" to "Selected Only".