dx-packages team mailing list archive

[Robert Euhus <1290785@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Poking around a bit further it seems like the 'SetAccountType(in i
accountType);' method mentioned above can take only values of 0 and 1
(which I would rather regard as boolean, than integer) and changes only
the 'AccountType' property of that user. This  property seems different
from the SystemAccount property.

I have no idea what the AccountType means, but i noticed that it is set
to 1 for my local user and to 0 for the domain/winbind users. On the
other hand, there is another special boolean property called
LocalAccount ....... oh well, who needs docs anyway?

So to me it looks like there is no way to correct the wrongly detected
SystemAccount property for a user, but to Uncache and then Cache this
user.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX
Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu.
Matching subscriptions: dx-packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1290785

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.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1290785/+subscriptions