# default user on logon screen

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/default-user-on-logon-screen/26386>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [November 18, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/default-user-on-logon-screen/26386 "2014-11-18T23:52:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![merlin128](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@merlin128](https://forums.suse.com/u/merlin128)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/default-user-on-logon-screen/26386/1 "2014-11-18T23:52:58Z")

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on SLES 12… during install it creates a local userID…  
once logged on, I edit the system userID ‘oracle’ and start using it…  
but the local userID created during the install is always the one listed on the logon screen, how do I get the system user: ‘oracle’ to be the userid defaulted on the logon screen…

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/default-user-on-logon-screen/26386/2 "2014-11-19T01:47:38Z")

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> On Tue 18 Nov 2014 09:54:01 PM CST, merlin128 wrote:
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> on SLES 12… during install it creates a local userID…  
> once logged on, I edit the system userID ‘oracle’ and start using it…  
> but the local userID created during the install is always the one listed  
> on the logon screen, how do I get the system user: ‘oracle’ to be the  
> userid defaulted on the logon screen…

Hi  
You should be able to do this via /etc/gdm/custom.conf in the [greeter]  
section.

More information here;  
[https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/3.10/configuration.html.en](https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/3.10/configuration.html.en)

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)  
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.28-4-default  
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**Author:** ![merlin128](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@merlin128](https://forums.suse.com/u/merlin128)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/default-user-on-logon-screen/26386/3 "2014-11-19T17:11:49Z")

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[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;24970]Hi  
You should be able to do this via /etc/gdm/custom.conf in the [greeter]  
section.  
[/QUOTE]

I tried:  
Exclude=administrator  
Include=oracle

but the logon screen still just shows administrator…  
it may have to do with “Any users with a user id less than 500 … are filtered out.”

I also tried:  
IncludeAll=true  
still just shows administrator

(has a ‘not this user’ option underneath it, so I can log in as other users…)  
I am on SLES 12.