I wrote: > F23 with KDE uses the SDDM display manager by default. This is > totally impractical in an environment, like ours, where users are > authenticated through the network. There are literally hundreds of > possible users. Scrolling through that many pseudo-pictures to find > yourself is stupid! It's also something of a security exposure as > everyone learns all the possible users of the system. There has to be > a way to allow a user to explicitly enter his name without having to > select it from any kind of list. Ideas?
Duncan wrote: > FWIW, here I just login at the text CLI, and run startx (which is > setup with a kde session that then runs startkde, etc). > > Totally practical for network authentication, indeed, ssh CLI login > if desired, and no X overhead when nobody's logged in or when the > login is CLI and doesn't need X. And it's much harder to break a CLI > login than a *DM of any sort. =:^) I use exactly that solution for myself. But in this case, I'm setting up a large number of boxes for lab use and the users would not know how to do that. I have to do something they will find familiar. Christian Butcher wrote: > I think that themes for SDDM other than the default have different > arrangements for the login screen. For example, the 'circles' theme, > shipped with SDDM, allows typing a username. Rex Dieter wrote: > Use a different sddm theme that doesn't include a userlist? > > fedora ships a theme named 02-fedora for this purpose, ie, edit > /etc/sddm.conf to include: [Theme] Current=02-fedora > > (or, it should fallback to using that one if you remove the > sddm-breeze rpm package) I'll look into those themes. Unfortunately, our corporate proxy is having trouble reaching kde.org and Google didn't find any other references to changing the theme. That's why I had to ask here. But I'd really prefer a completely different display manager. (I find the SDDM developer's attitude about root login to be insulting.) That's why my subject line is "SDDM alternatives". -- Dave Close ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
