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In RHEL-6, the gnome login screen displays all user accounts. Apparently this behavior of the gdm greeter was inherited from Fedora. This may not be a problem with personal desktops/laptops but, in an enterprise class Linux like RHEL, it could constitute a security vulnerability. I saw complaints from users as early as in Fedora 9. [...]

Jan 2nd, 2011 | Filed under centos, RHEL, Scientific Linux