This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1
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accountsservice (0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium
* debian/patches/0018-no-max-uid.patch:
- Don't have a maximum UID (LP: #1290785)
-- Robert Ancell <robert.anc...@canonical.com> Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:26:01
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** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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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 Released
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.
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