Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885449 Title: accountsservice is collapsing multiple distinct accounts into one when uid is same Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: $ grep user /etc/passwd scott:x:1000:1000:scott,,,:/home/scott:/bin/bash scotti:x:1000:1000:scotti,,,:/export/home/scott:/bin/bash $ These two accounts are collapsed into just scotti when presented via lightdm. Ordering in /etc/passwd doesn't change which account is selected, and this ordering is inconsistent with other programs such as ssh which pick the first line when doing getpwuid(). The switch user account menu in the unity panel instead of account name displays "Invalid UTF-8". ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: accountsservice 0.6.14-1git1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Nov 3 08:27:31 2011 ProcEnviron: LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE=C PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: accountsservice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-27 (6 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/885449/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp