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[Neil Broadley <scaine@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Another use case is corporate. Desktop roaming in an AD environment would result in your PC being populated in the greeter by anyone who happened to use your PC while you were on holiday. Or if support staff login to check a support call, or if we get the user to login at another PC to troubleshoot an issue.
So the use case is still aesthetics, but in my environment at least, you'd have greeters with 10+ entries on each PC and a lot of angry and confused staff wondering why they see all this spurious stuff on their login screen.

Finally, it's obviously detrimental to security that cleaners can glance
at login screens to gather a list of valid usernames.  There might be
other ways to do this as a cleaner, but Ubuntu's greeter makes this
stupidly easy.

As a wishlist item, therefore, I'd like the greeter to support the
concept of "only ever show this user".  Not sure what to log this
against though?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651

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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