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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  accountsservice is collapsing multiple distinct accounts into one when
  uid is same

Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  $ grep user /etc/passwd
  scott:x:1000:1000:scott,,,:/home/scott:/bin/bash
  scotti:x:1000:1000:scotti,,,:/export/home/scott:/bin/bash
  $

  These two accounts are collapsed into just scotti when presented via
  lightdm.

  Ordering in /etc/passwd doesn't change which account is selected, and
  this ordering is inconsistent with other programs such as ssh which
  pick the first line when doing getpwuid().

  The switch user account menu in the unity panel instead of account
  name displays "Invalid UTF-8".

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: accountsservice 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Nov  3 08:27:31 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LC_TIME=C
   LC_COLLATE=C
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: accountsservice
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-27 (6 days ago)

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