Howto: Hide Users List from Login Screen Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin | Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot | Linux

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From Last few months I am Using Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and What can i say its fantastic Ride, Looking Forward to New Version Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Today I Just Installed it and Done the first trick.

Now Lets come to the point, This post will guide you How to Hide Users List from Login Screen in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin and Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

I have created so many users and Forgot to delete users and rebooted Ubuntu and There are long list of user on login screen. Doing some tweaks I came to know about this Howto.

If you have the same problem or confusion this post is your friend.

DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

1) You have to be root to perform this how-to.
If you are not root then be root by executing following command :-
ubuntu-11.10@tejas-barot-linux-ahmedabad:~$ sudo su – ( Single Hyphen )

2) First of all Please take backup of original file, execute following command :-
root@tejas-barot-linux-ahmedabad:~# cp -p /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.orig

3) Now Open /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, Execute Following command :-
root@tejas-barot-linux-ahmedabad:~# vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

4)Now Please enter following line to [SeatDefaults] Selection:-

greeter-hide-users=true

For Example your /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf should look like below :-
[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=unity-greeter
user-session=ubuntu
greeter-hide-users=true

Now Save and Exit from file. ( ESC and :wq )

5) Now reboot Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, You will not able to see any user on Login screen/Window

I hope this will helps you all.

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