On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:35 -0500, John Morris wrote:
I'm not doing anything that crazy but I do want to be able to customize the login box. I twiddle the background. I add things to the welcome banner. I MUST be able to get the frickin' faces and list of users out and replace it with a normal username prompt. (12K entries in /home mounted via NFS. You do the frickin' math on that.) What I'm hearing is that I'll be SOL and had better be evaluating other display managers.
You have not actually tried it, have you ? Your 10000 network users are not going to show up in the user list, since we only populate the list with local users.
Now I'm not afraid to edit a config file, I actually prefer it, but it's gone and XML is at best read only for humans. It's a package deal guys, if you go the XML route you MUST provide a tool to manipulate it.
Not sure which xml file you are talking about. Last time I checked, /etc/gdm/custom.conf had the same format as always...