[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Since so many components are involved a fix/change might have been missed. And since I recently didn't hear anything about this otherwise rather hot bug I was giving focal a try. It turns out that this was indeed improved. Only the user of pkg:ifmail user fdt name "Fidonet" is still visible. All other formerly affected packages are good in Focal. I can't (without digging through history a lot) say what fixed that but I'll update the bug tasks accordingly. Setting Focal fixed and marking Bionic/Xenial as still affected releases. The backport tasks for those packages are incomplete thou as it is unclear which change in which package fixed it for Focal. Note: This is only speaking for the "default config" of Ubuntu Desktop as in 20.04 we know that certain environments will behave differently (e.g. KDE never was affected). ** Also affects: ifmail (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ceph (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: netqmail (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: sddm (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ifmail (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ceph (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: netqmail (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: sddm (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial) ** No longer affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu Bionic) ** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released ** No longer affects: ifmail (Ubuntu Xenial) ** No longer affects: ifmail (Ubuntu Bionic) ** No longer affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial) ** No longer affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Bionic) ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: netqmail (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: netqmail (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: netqmail (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released ** No longer affects: sddm (Ubuntu Xenial) ** No longer affects: sddm (Ubuntu Bionic) -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Unknown Status in SDDM: Fix Released Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ceph package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ifmail package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in netqmail package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in sddm package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ceph source package in Xenial: Incomplete Status in libvirt source package in Xenial: Incomplete Status in netqmail source package in Xenial: Incomplete Status in ceph source package in Bionic: Incomplete Status in libvirt source package in Bionic: Incomplete Status in netqmail source package in Bionic: Incomplete Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.la
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
** Changed in: sddm Status: Unknown => Fix Released -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Unknown Status in SDDM: Fix Released Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ceph package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ifmail package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in netqmail package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in sddm package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Piorities are a bit odd, eventually all packages affected (low prio as they can't do much about it) actually depend on lightdm to resolve it (prio medium) which depends on accountsservive to implement some shell- filter feature (prio high). TL;DR as there was a lot of discussion up to now: - users need a way to be hidden other than "uid is low" - [1] outlines the place/feature we'd need to get back what we had in the past - [2] outlines that this is a regression and should be handled in lightdm/accountsservice and not all indirectly affected packages Note: the updated upstream bug is [3], but since this is still a semi-static list instead of detecting hidden shells as it did in the past it is not perfect for what would be needed. Furthermore nothing happened on this bug for quite some time. And finally due to being a semi-static list it is almost worse than the workaround of echo -e "[User]\nSystemAccount=true" > /var/lib/AccountsService/users/libvirt-qemu Which could at least be a per-package owned drop-in config. Once more I'd ask the Desktop Team to evaluate how this could be solved. At least Towards 20.04 we should get rid of this annoyance for users. Please let me know if: - there is any chance that we get a hidden-shell filtering into accountsservice that will fix all affected packages at once? OR - if this will not happen and affected packages are supposed to each use the drop-in config. Which means a denial of the argument that was made in [2] While I'd appreciate getting the right solution (accountsservice filters) we were stalled for too long to use the workaround solution by waiting for it to resolve. So I hope kicking this (once more) helps to at least get to some solution for the users. [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/comments/73 [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1667113/comments/23 [3]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/issues/37 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Unknown Status in SDDM: Unknown Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ceph package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ifmail package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in netqmail package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in sddm package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
The Dup 1667113 had tracked some more affected packages - since all are dupped on this bug here let me add those tasks here so that all component owners are aware. ** Also affects: ceph (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ifmail (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: netqmail (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: sddm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: sddm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Bug watch added: github.com/sddm/sddm/issues #816 https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/816 ** Also affects: sddm via https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/816 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: netqmail (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: ifmail (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: ifmail (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Medium ** Changed in: netqmail (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Unknown Status in SDDM: Unknown Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ceph package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ifmail package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in netqmail package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in sddm package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
** Changed in: accountsservice Status: Confirmed => Unknown -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Unknown Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
bug 1674765 and https://askubuntu.com/questions/92349/how-do-i-hide-a -particular-user-from-the-login-screen have information how to deal with this -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Confirmed Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Why am I seeing this in a bionic fresh install when I did not see this in trusty? How can I workaround this very annoying and very old bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Confirmed Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
** Tags added: bionic -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Confirmed Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
** Tags added: artful -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Confirmed Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
** Tags added: xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Confirmed Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
** Tags added: trusty zesty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Confirmed Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
I was made aware in bug #1667113 that this seems to be the root bug to dup this onto. I know this comes down to accountsservice, as others not using it like sddm are just fine. If we stick to depend on accountsservice, then it comes down to the following $ dbus-send --print-reply=literal --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts /org/freedesktop/Accounts org.freedesktop.Accounts.ListCachedUsers Which should get some sort of the old hiddenShells feature back to exclude those users. Could someone of the desktop Team give this a look from the 18.04/gnome- shell POV - will this go away? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Confirmed Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Set the user to be a SystemUser in /var/lib/AccountsService/users works. I would be more interested in a whitelist feature, so newly created unworthy users don't have to be blacklisted. Why is there not a simple requirement like: only members of the lightdm group are allowed to use lightdm?? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Confirmed Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
The workaround I am using to this bug is simple: Copy /var/lib/AccountsService/users/root to /var/lib/AccountsService/users/user It's is probably a bad thing to do... What actually happens if one uses SystemAccount=true in that file, as far as I understand (correct me if I am wrong) that won't grant any special powers to that user, still relies on group membership and PolicyKit rules. Essentially as a temporary workaround the following lines hide the user: [User] SystemAccount=true -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
This bug also causes all users home directories to mount if they're setup in autofs. This is especially detrimental if your autofs maps contain thousands of users. Lightdm and autofs will slowly grind through mounting home directories looking for: ~/.dmrc ~/.face ~/.face.icon These mounts stay around in /etc/mtab, which causes reboots/shutdowns to take extremely long while the system then umounts all the directories. This not only affects the local system, but if hundreds of systems in an environment are doing this it causes unnecessary load on backend services. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
workaround: delete line 143 (username section, containing text: greeter.lastLoggedInUser) /usr/share/kde4/apps/lightdm-kde-greeter/themes/classic/main.qml -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
could at least "don't show last logged in network users" work somehow? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Bug is even worse with kde where greeter-hide-users=true does not work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Given that there is a patch available for the upstream bug, could Ubuntu pull that into it's version of accountservice? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Still an issue on ubuntu 14.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Please disregard my comment #61. I missed the existence of the "greeter- show-manual-login" lightdm config option. ** No longer affects: unity-greeter (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Creating a user with UID < 1000 works for me as a workaround, since I'm using lightdm-gtk-greeter, which has an "Other" option that allows you to type the username of the account you want to log in to. unity-greeter does not have this option, so a modification to unity-greeter seems to be needed to fix this bug. ** Also affects: unity-greeter (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Launchpad has imported 18 comments from the remote bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56729. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2012-11-03T21:51:30+00:00 Matthew Monaco wrote: The hardcoded default_excludes is really annoying. It's about time we had support for a configuration file. The attached patch set includes this support. It adds support for [UserList]/Excludes which is shipped with the list of users currently hardcoded in default_excludes. It also adds support for [UserList]/MinUID with -- as far as I can tell -- a common default of 1000. However, this is now easy for distributions to modify. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/comments/36 On 2012-11-03T21:52:08+00:00 Matthew Monaco wrote: Created attachment 69500 0001-util.h-add-missing-headers.patch Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/comments/37 On 2012-11-03T21:52:32+00:00 Matthew Monaco wrote: Created attachment 69501 0002-cfg-initial-support-for-a-configuration-file.patch Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/comments/38 On 2012-11-03T21:52:51+00:00 Matthew Monaco wrote: Created attachment 69502 0003-cfg-replace-default_excludes-with-configuration-file.patch Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/comments/39 On 2012-11-03T21:54:03+00:00 Matthew Monaco wrote: Created attachment 69503 0004-cfg-add-option-for-minimum-uid.patch Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/comments/40 On 2012-11-05T17:00:33+00:00 Rstrode wrote: Hey, I'd prefer if you added metadata to each users config file instead of introduciting a new file. Also, one thing to think about is accountsservice is used in various places to get a list of users 1) the login screen 2) the control center panel maybe it would make sense to show the user in the panel even when not in the login screen? So we may want two keys. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/comments/41 On 2012-11-05T18:05:46+00:00 Matthew Monaco wrote: Ray, I agree that more keys can be added, but all this does is pull a really arbitrary hard-coded list out of the binary into a config file. (And re-add Minimum UID because it made sense but no-one could agree on a value). As for the per-user config file, I gotta disagree with you. Those are in /var/lib/... which doesn't really suggest they are intended to be done by hand. Also, the minimum UID is global behavior. I could see adding an option like Visibility to the per-user config which can be always on, no-cache, or off, But why block which IMO is more of a bug-fix because it also makes you want a new feature. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/comments/42 On 2012-11-12T19:53:36+00:00 Rstrode wrote: I think we also want to keep a separation between admin configuration and distro configuration. We should probably have two files, one in data dir and one in /etc/accountsservice/ Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/comments/43 On 2012-11-12T19:53:59+00:00 Rstrode wrote: (by data dir, i mean $(datadir), i.e. /usr/share/accountsservice) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/comments/44 On 2012-11-13T20:10:56+00:00 Matthew Monaco wrote: I agree, but I didn't want to put too much time into it before I knew it might be accepted. Do you think that a single file in /usr that's overridable in /etc is enough? I could see a case for a config.d, lexographically sorted set of config files so that a package could drop in an exclude for a specific username that it installs. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/comments/45 On 2012-11-13T20:42:25+00:00 Rstrode wrote: I think distros should be able to have their list which includes adm, lp, and nobody, and admins should be able to augment the list with their own users
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Upstream 41908 was marked invalid as a duplicate of upstream 56729, for which there is a patch. Updating Remote Watch accordingly. ** Changed in: accountsservice Importance: Medium => Unknown ** Changed in: accountsservice Status: Invalid => Unknown ** Changed in: accountsservice Remote watch: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #41908 => freedesktop.org Bugzilla #56729 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Unknown Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Remote Watch should be updated to: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56729 ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #56729 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56729 -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Unknown Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
** Changed in: accountsservice Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Invalid Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
The attachment "add-config-file.patch" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-reviewers team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review the patch. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-reviewers team please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report. [This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by Brian Murray. Please contact him regarding any issues with the action taken in this bug report.] ** Tags added: patch -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Created patch against latest ubuntu source package. It creates the option to write a key-value-pair to a configuration file named /etc/accountsservice.conf, in which you can specify with the key "hidden-users" a space separated list of the hidden users. Example content of /etc/accountsservice.conf: # # accountsservice config file # # [Users] # hidden-users = space separated list of users to exclude # [Users] hidden-users=not_me imhidden ** Patch added: "add-config-file.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/857651/+attachment/3418231/+files/add-config-file.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Any good reason for removing something that used to work perfectly (kdm) and substituting an evidently half backed replacement for it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
What about creating a system group like "noguilogin" that accountsservice uses to determine whether a gui login is allowed and passes that as a flag via dbus with other requested user information. Then all other services that use accountsservice can refer to this when validating whether an X session should be allowed. Also, services that don't utilize accountsservice can just look for membership in the group. Another option may be as simple as changing lightdm so there's a way to disable using accountsservice. Then you could edit users.conf as you normally would. Not pretty, but it gets the job done. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
one of the most creative thing of linux developers is, they are very good at transforming a bug into a feature. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
There is also problem with shells. In the file /etc/passwd I set: user:x:1001:1001:,,,:/home/user:/bin/false In file /etc/shells I added /bin/false Also checked: # ls -l /bin/false -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22896 apr1 06:09 /bin/false But still can "user" log in as regular user through GUI. I would like to create user for FTP server (vsftpd), that works only with FTP and not as regular user. I noticed, that at the file /etc/lightdm/users.conf there is written: hidden-shells=/bin/false /usr/sbin/nologin What does this mean? If /bin/false is hidden, then it is not active and user can still log in? I even tried to remove that /bin/false but it didn't help - still can user log in even its shell is /bin/false -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
for now, i worked around setting the UID < 1000. I have 3 user hide from lightdm with UID 955 956 957 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
10+ months later and this is still an issue. All our users log in via LDAP. I'd really like to have this fixed so we don't have a lab of machines that display what the local admin username is. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
thanks for your interest but please use the "Does this bug affect you?" button on top of the bug table rather than comments to confirm you get the issue -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
same here with ubuntu 12.04 and unity-2D. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
still active bug then with no work around!! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
so what is the fix for this? how do i remove usernames from lightdm that have no purpose being there IE: the username used to run lightdm = lightdm UID= 999 the above user is listed & if i change the UID to 499 or less lightdm fails to run! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
I think global exclusion option is needed. Imagine a big domain environment where there are about 20 admins. And all these admins are policykit admins. Once you try to use policykit somehow, all these admin accounts will appear in the panel, but I don't really need them there. The same for login screen - if you are admin, then I think you know how to type your account name. The same time a typical user shouldn't see this trash of unknown strange account names. Or another way is to implement some cache setting (suggested my Matthew Monaco). If cache is set to 1, then only the last logged user is shown. The best of course is to implement both of these features. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Another use case is corporate. Desktop roaming in an AD environment would result in your PC being populated in the greeter by anyone who happened to use your PC while you were on holiday. Or if support staff login to check a support call, or if we get the user to login at another PC to troubleshoot an issue. So the use case is still aesthetics, but in my environment at least, you'd have greeters with 10+ entries on each PC and a lot of angry and confused staff wondering why they see all this spurious stuff on their login screen. Finally, it's obviously detrimental to security that cleaners can glance at login screens to gather a list of valid usernames. There might be other ways to do this as a cleaner, but Ubuntu's greeter makes this stupidly easy. As a wishlist item, therefore, I'd like the greeter to support the concept of "only ever show this user". Not sure what to log this against though? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Launchpad has imported 4 comments from the remote bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41908. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2011-10-18T02:54:38+00:00 Robert Ancell wrote: Some users like to filter out certain users from the login screen / user switcher etc. The accounts can still be logged into but are not shown in the GUI. Suggest adding a filter list to AccountsService that does this, perhaps via a "hidden" property on users that should not be shown in a GUI? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/comments/8 On 2011-11-15T07:09:45+00:00 Robert Ancell wrote: I've been asking around to find out why you'd not want to log into certain accounts. The cases I've head so far are: - System users showing up (e.g. mysql. This seems like an OS bug) - Running a server and having remote logins. There may be accounts that you want to log into to control the server (i.e. over SSH) but not graphically. The last case makes it sound like there potentially should be a per-seat filter. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/comments/14 On 2011-11-15T10:55:19+00:00 Yoho-ahoy wrote: My use case is a separate account used to develop or to build packages. This provides environmental isolation from the everyday user account and some security - the separate account might have additional system privileges or private keys. For example: Mock - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock#Build_User kde development - using (now outdated, i think) advice such as at http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4_%28bn_IN%29#Create_a_user_account_for_KDE4_development A test account for a very old version of amarok with X forwarding Accounts that can only be accessed by ssh or that don't make sense to log in directly (and are just noise for other users on the machine) but that are otherwise still normal user accounts with home directories and that don't really belong in the system account pid range. Arguably some of this is better handled by virtual machines nowadays; but the separate build user case for mock is, I believe, still strong. And the ssh keys in a separate account case is reasonable, isn't it? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/comments/15 On 2011-11-15T12:41:44+00:00 Yoho-ahoy wrote: To cut through some of the guff, this use case boils down to - Accounts intended for local ssh logins. They may have privileges or contain secrets not suitable for day-to-day use. and perhaps - Testing accounts that users at the greeter don't need to be bothered with (whether on a single-owner or a shared machine). Not for security, just aesthetics. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/comments/16 ** Changed in: accountsservice Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: accountsservice Importance: Unknown => Medium -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Confirmed Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Robert says that there is no lightdm change require, the service should just export the right list of users -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Unknown Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Hey Aurélien, is that something you would be interested to work on? It would need adding support for hiding users to accountsservice and get lightdm to use it -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Unknown Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Rhialto, you can disable all users by settting the following in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf: [SeatDefaults] greeter-hide-users=true -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Unknown Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
@Rhialto: I dont see why this is a security risk to show all users. On UNIX-like systems unprivileged users usually can read /etc/passwd and therefore all user-names on this machine (unless they are managed by LDAP or similar). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Unknown Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
I would say it is a security problem to have any users show up at all. There doesn't even seem to be an option to *always* hide *all* users. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Unknown Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #41908 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41908 ** Also affects: accountsservice via http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41908 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 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/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information: Unknown Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857651] Re: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher
Please add a brief comment to /etc/lightdm/users.conf to explain. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+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