Bug#1107934: gdm3: disable-user-list=true stopped working after upgrade from bookworm to trixie

Jeremy Bícha jeremy.bicha at canonical.com
Tue Jun 17 20:01:19 BST 2025


On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM Robert Jaeschke <robert-j at gmx.de> wrote:
> in bookworm I had successfully disabled the user list in the gdm login screen
> by following those instructions: https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-
> guide/stable/login-userlist-disable.html.en
>
> After upgrading to trixie this no longer works.

I don't believe those instructions can work as is. Debian has named
the system user Debian-gdm instead of gdm so I think you may need to
substitute Debian-gdm for gdm every time gdm is mentioned on that
page.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha



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