Hi Chris and everyone involved, I can confirm, that this new package from trusty-proposed fixes the problem. Users with a higher UID (e.g. 101125 here) are shown and 'nobody' is hidden.
I have just tested this on a fresh install of trusty Xubuntu with the proposed repository enabled as described in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed Just for completeness, here is a list of the installed package versions from apt-cache policy: accountsservice: Installiert: 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1 Installationskandidat: 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1 Versionstabelle: *** 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1 0 400 ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.6.35-0ubuntu7 0 500 ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages libaccountsservice0: Installiert: 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1 Installationskandidat: 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1 Versionstabelle: *** 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1 0 400 ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.6.35-0ubuntu7 0 500 ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages Thanks a lot to everyone involved! I just hope this arrives in trusty- updates soon :-) Yours, Robert ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: trusty verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. 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: Fix Committed 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/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
