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[Bug 1290785] Re: Users with UID > 60000 are invisible in login and Settings->User unless /etc/login.defs updated

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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 02:29:37 -0000
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This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.37-1ubuntu4

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accountsservice (0.6.37-1ubuntu4) utopic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/0020-support-login.defs.patch:
    - Don't use UID_MAX - all system users will be below UID_MIN and using
      UID_MAX hides valid users on systems with large UIDs (LP: #1290785)
 -- Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>   Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:34:15 +1200

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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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:
  Fix Released
Status in “accountsservice” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

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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