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On 2011-10-18T02:54:38+00:00 Robert Ancell wrote:

Some users like to filter out certain users from the login screen / user
switcher etc.  The accounts can still be logged into but are not shown
in the GUI.  Suggest adding a filter list to AccountsService that does
this, perhaps via a "hidden" property on users that should not be shown
in a GUI?

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On 2011-11-15T07:09:45+00:00 Robert Ancell wrote:

I've been asking around to find out why you'd not want to log into certain accounts.  The cases I've head so far are:
- System users showing up (e.g. mysql.  This seems like an OS bug)
- Running a server and having remote logins.  There may be accounts that you want to log into to control the server (i.e. over SSH) but not graphically.

The last case makes it sound like there potentially should be a per-seat
filter.

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On 2011-11-15T10:55:19+00:00 Yoho-ahoy wrote:

My use case is a separate account used to develop or to build packages.
This provides environmental isolation from the everyday user account and
some security - the separate account might have additional system
privileges or private keys. For example:

 Mock - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock#Build_User
 kde development - using (now outdated, i think) advice such as at http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4_%28bn_IN%29#Create_a_user_account_for_KDE4_development
 A test account for a very old version of amarok with X forwarding

Accounts that can only be accessed by ssh or that don't make sense to
log in directly (and are just noise for other users on the machine) but
that are otherwise still normal user accounts with home directories and
that don't really belong in the system account pid range.

Arguably some of this is better handled by virtual machines nowadays;
but the separate build user case for mock is, I believe, still strong.
And the ssh keys in a separate account case is reasonable, isn't it?

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On 2011-11-15T12:41:44+00:00 Yoho-ahoy wrote:

To cut through some of the guff, this use case boils down to
- Accounts intended for local ssh logins. They may have privileges or contain secrets not suitable for day-to-day use.

and perhaps
- Testing accounts that users at the greeter don't need to be bothered with (whether on a single-owner or a shared machine). Not for security, just aesthetics.

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** Changed in: accountsservice
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Title:
  Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher

Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information:
  Confirmed
Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in
  /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed
  on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago)
  mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175

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