I was not yet able to test the fix mentioned above. But I noticed that with my workaround the user "nobody" (uid 65534) is listed as in lightdm. It is listed by accountsservice if I query it via dbus:
root@pc:~/tmp# qdbus --system org.freedesktop.Accounts / /org /org/freedesktop /org/freedesktop/Accounts /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User65534 [..] /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000 Hopefully this has been taken care of in the patched version? I'll try to test the utopic version tomorrow. @Robert Ancell: 1. is this the correct way to restart the accountsservice?: /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon --replace & 2. I couldn't find a lot of documentation for accountsservice could you give me a hint for a good start? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290785 Title: Users with UID > 60000 are invisible in login and Settings->User unless /etc/login.defs updated Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “accountsservice” source package in Trusty: Triaged Bug description: [Impact] Users of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with UID > 60000 will not show in the greeter or system settings without editing UID_MAX in /etc/login.defs. This was not required in 12.04 LTS. In 12.04 LTS users were only hidden if they had UID < UID_MIN. In 13.10 this was changed to UID < UID_MIN or UID > UID_MAX. [Test Case] 1. Create a user with a UID > UID_MAX: $ adduser --uid 60001 big-uid 2. Restart system Expected result: "big-uid" is shown in the greeter. Once logged in "big-uid" is shown in system settings. Observed result: "big-uid" is not shown in the greeter (14.04 LTS, 14.10) "big-uid" is not shown in system settings (13.10, 14.04LTS, 14.10) [Regression Potential] This could cause users that were previously hidden to be shown. This seems unlikely to be a problem as all system created user accounts are less than UID_MIN and there doesn't seem be a convention to use accounts > UID_MAX for this case. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1290785/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
