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[Chris J Arges <1290785@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted accountsservice into trusty-proposed. The package will build
now and be available at
http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1 in
a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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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:
  Fix Committed

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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