[LightDM] lightdm support for specifying list of users to be SHOWN in greeter?

[robert.devanna at nospammail.net]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015, at 02:13 PM, Robert Ancell wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> The LightDM daemon only provides a hint to the greeters if users should be
> displayed or not. It is up to each greeter to decide if wants to show a
> subset of users. Unity Greeter provides an option to hide users. The GTK+
> greeter doesn't provide an option. I'm not sure what the KDE greeters
> provide.
> 
> We could add a user whitelist to the LightDM configuration and let the
> greeters use that or you could just implement it in each greeter as
> appropriate. Note that LightDM just provides hints to each greeter so the
> feature would still need to be implemented in each greeter (though we would
> probably add a helper function in liblightdm).
> 
> If you think the feature should be provided by LightDM please file a bug
> here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm

I do.  Done:

lightdm whitelist support for specifying list of users to be SHOWN in greeter
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1474145

thanks!

Rob