![]() HERE ARE THE ANSWERS, for those who may find this thread and wonder, "What the. (During Debian installation, Cinnamon is chosen when the "tasksel" program runs during (and others, please): > The two-field combined login dialog box like the one in Debian Cinnamon is what I would like to see for Linux Mint Cinnamon during login. What is the simple common solution to do that, please? How do I replace the login greeter in Linux Mint Cinnamon that prompts for username and password with separate dialog boxes? I would like to see a login greeter that prompts to enter username and password in one combined dialog box. (During Debian installation, Cinnamon is chosen when the "tasksel" program runs during installation.) (and others, please): ![]() The default for Debian Cinnamon when configured for manual username entry is a combined dialog box where the user enters their username and password in one combined dialog box. When it does, the actual password can be logged as a username in a log file for a failed login attempt. It can happen, especially if you accidentally "typo" the initial login. It is easy to type the password in the username field by accident. After you enter the username, the dialog box goes away and the login greeter presents a second, separate dialog box for the password. When "Hide the user list" is enabled on Linux Mint Cinnamon, the login greeter presents two separate login dialog boxes - first a dialog box to enter the username. A common display manager for login is LightDM, for example - look in /etc/lightdm/. ![]() In Linux Mint Cinnamon and some other distros, you can use the Login Window Setting application to change the login setting in the Users tab: Enable "Hide the user list." In other distros, you can configure it through a setting in the /etc directory. I have no justification other than "minimize information leakage" or "I just like it that way". I prefer old way of asking the user to type their username rather than present the list of users on a platter for someone sitting down at the screen. ![]() Current desktop operating systems present a list of usernames for selection at login time. ![]()
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