sorry. i guess that solution was covered in the document you referenced.
(thanks by the way - i had to figure this crap out myself.) maybe i
misunderstood your question...


On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 4:16 PM, greg boyd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> You need to set a couple of values using dconf. You can find out the keys
> to set using:
> gsettings list-schemas | grep login
> This shows org.gnome.login-screen
>
> then list the keys using
> gsettings list-keys org.gnome.login-screen
>
> you will find two keys: banner-message-text
> and banner-message-enable
>
> Setting these keys in a file named like 01-login-screen in a directory
> under /etc/dconf/db
> (im not sure if its gdm.d or local.d), in a file like this:
> [org/gnome/login-screen]
> banner-message-enable=true
> banner-message-text=whatever
>
> should do it. I'm not sure if you need (or can) quote whatever, and I'm
> not sure which directory it must go in (we disable the login list in a file
> like this and I just put it in both places - I guess I had trouble with one
> of them and duplicated it)
>
> good luck!
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Jim Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> At the bottom of each page in the GNOME docs, there's a short blurb that
>> says, "Got a comment? Spotted an error? Found the instructions unclear?
>> Send feedback about this page." Sending feedback sends a message to a
>> mailing list that is monitored by the docs team.
>>
>> I think that the person who monitors that mailing list most regularly is
>> also the person who works on the sysadmin guide, so submitting your
>> feedback there would be as good as a bug report.  You can also file a bug
>> report, too.
>>
>> That link is present on all GNOME help docs on the web, by the way.
>>
>> I think that SL7 is using GNOME 3.8 right now, so this is the page that
>> you'd want to check out:
>>
>> https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/3.8/login-banner.html.en
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015, at 01:29 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>>
>> Typically I find the upstream Gnome3 guide a bit more complete:
>> https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/index.html.en
>>
>> I do not see a suitable setting there either.....
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> On 08/28/2015 01:23 PM, Nathan Moore wrote:
>>
>> In older versions of SL one could include the machine name in the login
>> banner.  Somethings like "%n.university.edu" in the login banner config
>> screen would produce "physics1.university.edu" at the login screen.
>>
>> In the present RHEL7 documentation (link below) I don't see this option
>> in the dconf docs.  Is there an easy way to include machine name in the gdm
>> login screen?
>>
>> reference,
>> <https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Desktop_Migration_and_Administration_Guide/customizing-login-screen.html>
>> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Desktop_Migration_and_Administration_Guide/customizing-login-screen.html
>>
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>> Nathan Moore
>> Mississippi River and 44th Parallel
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>>
>> --
>> Pat Riehecky
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
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