Thank you for your bug. UID used for users start on 1000 on Debian or Ubuntu, that's a correct default value then. If you have some special need you can adjuste the gdm config according to that. Marking rejected, that's not a bug, the configuration makes sense for Ubuntu
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- Automatic login of user with uid of 500 doesn't work https://launchpad.net/bugs/53744 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs