[Simon McVittie]
> (I don't know why specifically gdm needs the greeter user to be
> available in the shadow "database", but apparently it does.

I suspect the reason is to check user password expire timestamps.
Perhaps it is enough to tell gdm to use a default value if it can not
find the information it want from the shadow database?

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

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