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[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There seems to be no good reason to consider users with UID > UID_MAX so
the best solution is probably to remove that check.

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Title:
  Users with UID > 60000 are invisible in login and Settings->User
  unless /etc/login.defs updated

Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “accountsservice” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  13.10
  =====
  What I did:
  - Install 13.04
  - create user with UID 10203040 (works as expected on login screen and User settings panel)
  - update to 13.10

  Expected
  - User available on login screen
  - User shown in system-settings

  Actual
  - User _not_ available on login screen, login with manually typed username works
  - User _not_ shown in system-settings

  What I did further
  - in /etc/login.defs set UID_MAX=99999999

  Actual outcome
  - User _is_ available on login screen
  - User _not_ shown in system-settings

  14.04
  =====
  What I did:
  - update do 14.04

  Expected
  - User available on login screen
  - User _still not_ shown in system-settings

  Actual
  - User _not_ available on login screen, login with manually typed username works
  - User _still not_ shown in system-settings

  So now with 14.04 it is fully broken.

  Additional information
  ======================

  13.10
  -----
  $ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center
  gnome-control-center:
    Installiert:           1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45.2
    Installationskandidat: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45.2
    Versionstabelle:
   *** 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45.2 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:3.6.3-0ubuntu44 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages

  14.04
  -----
  $ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center
  gnome-control-center:
    Installiert:           1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56
    Installationskandidat: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56
    Versionstabelle:
   *** 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu56 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ----
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Mar 11 10:56:39 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-02 (189 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-01-06 (64 days ago)
  usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
   activity-log-manager        0.9.7-0ubuntu4
   deja-dup                    27.3.1-0ubuntu1
   gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.7~+13.10.20130724.1-0ubuntu1
   gnome-control-center-unity  1.3+13.10.20131004-0ubuntu1

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