since upgrade to 13.10, login screen displays Light Display Manager as its own user

[Adam Gomulka]

Since upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10, Light Display Manager has been listed as its own user account on the login screen. I have found a manual workaround on a forum which involves adding user "lightdm" to the list of 'hidden-users' in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, but this should still be addressed, perhaps through a software patch.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: lightdm 1.8.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 23 00:04:07 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-31 (52 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-19 (3 days ago)

[GwaiTsi (gwaitsi)]

i have this bug and the workaround i.e. users.conf hidden-users=lightdm does not work for initial startup. uid=111

i.e. initial startup shows Light Display Manager as a login account, after login with a normal user account and then logoff, Light Display Manager no longer shows.

[GwaiTsi (gwaitsi)]

p.s. i might add, i have a laptop where the above solution does work for the initial startup as well.

[Adam Gomulka (adam-gomulka4)]

I should have checked more thoroughly before stating that modifying /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf was a successful workaround. I modified it, logged out, and found that Light Display Manager no longer showed up, and assumed that it fully removed the issue. In fact, when I start the computer up, it still shows up, and only on subsequent logouts does it disappear. This almost seems to imply that lightdm.conf is not being fully loaded or implemented prior to the first login.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Closing assumed fixed.