I can confirm that it is not longer working in 12.04 LTS. Pretty bad, because I migrated the first machine from openSUSE to Ubuntu and I have since a long time a established infrastructure with NFS3 and users in the range 500-1000.
Comment #19 rise up the general question what is the intention of in 12.04 LTS? Should still UID_MIN influence gdm? Or is there a possibility to set the displayed UID range for gdm? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459199 Title: Greeter does not show legacy users with uid < 1000 Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager: Unknown Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: gdm My user stopped showing up in the face browser. My account is from probably an ancient Debian install that has been upgraded through Warty all the way to Karmic now: kees:x:501:501:Kees Cook,,,:/home/kees:/bin/bash ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 23 07:15:06 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: gdm 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: gdm Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:4830): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:4830): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4928): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:4911): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/459199/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
