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[Robert Euhus <1290785@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris and everyone involved,

I can confirm, that this new package from trusty-proposed fixes the
problem. Users with a higher UID (e.g. 101125 here) are shown and
'nobody' is hidden.

I have just tested this on a fresh install of trusty Xubuntu with the
proposed repository enabled as described in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed

Just for completeness, here is a list of the installed package versions
from apt-cache policy:

accountsservice:
  Installiert:           0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1
  Installationskandidat: 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1 0
        400 ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.6.35-0ubuntu7 0
        500 ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
libaccountsservice0:
  Installiert:           0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1
  Installationskandidat: 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 0.6.35-0ubuntu7.1 0
        400 ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.6.35-0ubuntu7 0
        500 ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/linux/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Thanks a lot to everyone involved! I just hope this arrives in trusty-
updates soon :-)

Yours,
Robert

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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:
  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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