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[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian,

Thanks for handling this.

> But the more that are affected the more I think then general solution
in lightdm would be the right thing to do.

Yes, that's my interpretation too -- and it was my impression from the
beginning, with your report/analysis, as I couldn't find anything we
were doing wrong with the useradd of a system account, and specially due
to this documentation statement (comment #7):

> [...] filters out those with UID values which are below a threshold
point to screen out system users [...]

Which does not cover the possible conditions for a system user (man 8
useradd):

       -r, --system
           Create a system account.

           System users will be created with no aging information in /etc/shadow, and their
           numeric identifiers are chosen in the SYS_UID_MIN-SYS_UID_MAX range, defined in
           /etc/login.defs, instead of UID_MIN-UID_MAX (and their GID counterparts for the
           creation of groups).

           Note that useradd will not create a home directory for such an user, regardless of the
           default setting in /etc/login.defs (CREATE_HOME). You have to specify the -m options
           if you want a home directory for a system account to be created.

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Title:
  System users appears in Ligthdm and user switcher (Accountsservice has
  no filter for shell types)

Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in base-passwd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ceph package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ifmail package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in netqmail package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  "Technical" user libvirt Qemu appears in the list of user in Ligthdm,
  among the real regular users. It probably shouldn't

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
  Package: libvirt-bin 2.5.0-3ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.9.0-15.16-generic 4.9.5
  Uname: Linux 4.9.0-15-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
  Date: Wed Feb 22 22:09:24 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-01 (21 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Alpha amd64 (20170201)
  KernLog:
   
  SourcePackage: libvirt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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