Usually accountsservice is either installed/runs or not. So choosing what to use should be automatic, depending on whether accounts-daemon is running or not. For compatibility reasons it is better to write to both .dmrc and /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER anyway./var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER anyway. And choose what to read from depending on accounts-daemon existence.
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