how to change the display manager 'login screen' on kali 2016.1

[au10tic]

i would like to have either a list or icons of local users in my kali 2016.1 installation, can anybody point me the right direction? i just find it annoying having to type in the username and password at the login screen. I know different display managers have a way of configuring them like lightdm but i am not sure where to go for the pre-installed one 'gdm3'

[kcdtv]

You will find good explanations here :
GDM (https://wiki.debian.org/GDM) @ debian.org
Basically it looks like you have to have an entry like that in your /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf file

[daemon]
# Enabling automatic login
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME
Instead of what you have (where AutomaticLoginEnable=false and no Automaticlogin variable exists)

[au10tic]

You will find good explanations here :
GDM (https://wiki.debian.org/GDM) @ debian.org
Basically it looks like you have to have an entry like that in your /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf file

[daemon]
# Enabling automatic login
AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME
Instead of what you have (where AutomaticLoginEnable=false and no Automaticlogin variable exists)

@kcdtv thanks for your response! i actually did play around with that .conf file and wondered if that was it, although what you are suggesting above is to automate my login with whatever user i want, i actually would like to get an option as a drop down menu or perhaps pictures where i can just select the account i want to log in as and then just type in the password, i currently have 3 accounts on kali, any other thoughts?

[kcdtv]

Ok, I misunderstood you, I epxlain you why.
Until your message i didn't realized that kali doesn't have an avlalaible list of the users
I thought it had.
I checked my greeter.dconf-defaults in gm3 directory and was suprised taht the list of users should be anbled

# These are the options for the greeter session that can be set
# through GSettings. Any GSettings setting that is used by the
# greeter session can be set here.

# Note that you must configure the path used by dconf to store the
# configuration, not the GSettings path.


# Theming options
# ===============
# - Change the GTK+ theme
# [org/gnome/desktop/interface]
# gtk-theme='Adwaita'
# - Use another background
# [org/gnome/desktop/background]
# picture-uri='file:///usr/share/themes/Adwaita/backgrounds/stripes.jpg'
# picture-options='zoom'
# - Or no background at all
# [org/gnome/desktop/background]
# picture-options='none'
# primary-color='#000000'

# Login manager options
# =====================
[org/gnome/login-screen]
logo='/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/places/debian-swirl.png'
fallback-logo='/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/places/debian-swirl.png'

# - Disable user list
# disable-user-list=true
# - Disable restart buttons
# disable-restart-buttons=true
# - Show a login welcome message
# banner-message-enable=true
# banner-message-text='Welcome'

It is "quoted" so it is not "active" and i should have the list enabled....
That's weird.
Let's see if we find a workaround I am gonna try some stuffs

[au10tic]

Ok, I misunderstood you, I epxlain you why.
Until your message i didn't realized that kali doesn't have an avlalaible list of the users
I thought it had.
I checked my greeter.dconf-defaults in gm3 directory and was suprised taht the list of users should be anbled

It is "quoted" so it is not "active" and i should have the list enabled....
That's weird.
Let's see if we find a workaround I am gonna try some stuffs

Thanks again!! yea, i had tried unquoting it, but didnt work.. so i thought maybe there was a different file i needed to mess with, hope you find a solution, will wait for a response.

[au10tic]

installed kali 2.0 on a vm and has the same results, works on 1.0;
1697

and leaving the line as disable-user-list=true does what is suppose to do.

[kcdtv]

thanks for the information, aty least we know taht it is specific to kali roling

[Touffman]

Hi all,
After hours checking this and before bug opening, I've found the trick :
You have to look at /usr/share/gdm/dconf
There's a file called 91-kali-settings in which you have to comment the line 'disable-user-list = true'

Regards.
Touffman