Ubuntu
accountsservice package

User accounts with id higher than 60000 are not shown in Trusty

Bug #1343261 reported by Margarita Manterola on 2014-07-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1290785: Users with UID > 60000 are invisible in login and Settings->User unless /etc/login.defs updated. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	accountsservice (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Version: 0.6.35-0ubuntu7

This bug is visible in lightdm, but it's actually a problem in Trusty's accountsservice. The code in user-classify.c forces the user account to be between 1000 and 60000. Any accounts higher than 60000 are considered systems accounts and not shown in lightdm.

In Utopic this is fixed by modifying the code to not take into account any maximum, but rather use the minimum and then filter "nobody" and "nobodynfs".

Editing login.defs is possible but is not enough, because in that case, nobody isn't filtered.

The patch is quite small and can be backported to Trusty without much issue.

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Margarita Manterola (marga-9) wrote on 2014-07-17:

Debdiff including a patch for making high uids work again Edit (4.4 KiB, text/plain)

Re-uploading the patch, there was a typo in the changelog.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2014-07-17:

Hi Margarita,

Thanks for your work with this. However, the change is already about to be backported to trusty via bug 1290785, so I just mark this bug report as a duplicate.