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[ChristianEhrhardt <1667113@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The suggestion was made to add a accountsservice file for it like:
echo -e "[User]\nSystemAccount=true" > /var/lib/AccountsService/users/libvirt-qemu

I agree this might be an option - and I might even be forced to take it at some point, but then I ask myself for how many extra Desktop envs/services would we make extra files if more are found.
Do we really want to make this a custom change in all those packages (and any else in the future who add system users).
- OR -
Wouldn't it make much much more sense to make accountsservice realize on non login shells as all other logins seem to do (e.g. sddm) and as itself did in the past (hidden-shells)?

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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:
  Confirmed
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:
  Confirmed
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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