[Touch-packages] [Bug 988072] Re: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd
Sorry but my workaround was incomplete - i.e. to clean up the login screen (and clean up the cached passwords) I use the following commands: sudo rm /var/lib/sss/db/* sudo rm /var/lib/sss/mc/* sudo rm -rf /var/lib/lightdm/.cache sudo rm -rf /var/cache/lightdm sudo rm -rf /var/log/wtmp And reboot the machine -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988072 Title: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Thanks to nss, there are many ways for a user account to exist. If you have user accounts authenticated with LDAP (say), and use nss tables other than passwd to store user information, then you find that the system automatically creates an entry in the user account database on login. This is handy: it means the user gets listed by lightdm in the greeter, for example, and things like background and keyboard prefs can be known to the greeter. It's all good. However, these users cannot be deleted. If you use the accounts-daemon from the control center to remove them, you get this error: Failed to delete user GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed: running '/usr/sbin/userdel' failed: /usr/sbin/userdel returned an error (1): userdel: cannot remove entry 'tbushnell' from /etc/passwd And alas, the user then stays in the system database. Please make it possible to remove users from the system database even if deluser and userdel don't work on them. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/988072/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Touch-packages] [Bug 988072] Re: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd
I have found a workaround - by deleting the sss cache files the remote user profiles disappear from the lightdm login screen: log-in as LOCAL administrator (sudo user) (i.e. basically the account that was created during installation) delete SSS cache files: sudo rm /var/lib/sss/db/* sudo rm /var/lib/sss/md/* And reboot the machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988072 Title: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Thanks to nss, there are many ways for a user account to exist. If you have user accounts authenticated with LDAP (say), and use nss tables other than passwd to store user information, then you find that the system automatically creates an entry in the user account database on login. This is handy: it means the user gets listed by lightdm in the greeter, for example, and things like background and keyboard prefs can be known to the greeter. It's all good. However, these users cannot be deleted. If you use the accounts-daemon from the control center to remove them, you get this error: Failed to delete user GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed: running '/usr/sbin/userdel' failed: /usr/sbin/userdel returned an error (1): userdel: cannot remove entry 'tbushnell' from /etc/passwd And alas, the user then stays in the system database. Please make it possible to remove users from the system database even if deluser and userdel don't work on them. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/988072/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Touch-packages] [Bug 988072] Re: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd
That work-around doesn't work for me, because my lightdm.conf already has those entries in it. [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=unity-greeter user-session=ubuntu greeter-hide-users=true greeter-show-manual-login=true allow-guest=false -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988072 Title: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Thanks to nss, there are many ways for a user account to exist. If you have user accounts authenticated with LDAP (say), and use nss tables other than passwd to store user information, then you find that the system automatically creates an entry in the user account database on login. This is handy: it means the user gets listed by lightdm in the greeter, for example, and things like background and keyboard prefs can be known to the greeter. It's all good. However, these users cannot be deleted. If you use the accounts-daemon from the control center to remove them, you get this error: Failed to delete user GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed: running '/usr/sbin/userdel' failed: /usr/sbin/userdel returned an error (1): userdel: cannot remove entry 'tbushnell' from /etc/passwd And alas, the user then stays in the system database. Please make it possible to remove users from the system database even if deluser and userdel don't work on them. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/988072/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Touch-packages] [Bug 988072] Re: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd
Have found a workaround that works but I'm not happy with. nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Add the following: [SeatDefaults] greeter-hide-users=true greeter-show-manual-login=true Save, reboot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988072 Title: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Thanks to nss, there are many ways for a user account to exist. If you have user accounts authenticated with LDAP (say), and use nss tables other than passwd to store user information, then you find that the system automatically creates an entry in the user account database on login. This is handy: it means the user gets listed by lightdm in the greeter, for example, and things like background and keyboard prefs can be known to the greeter. It's all good. However, these users cannot be deleted. If you use the accounts-daemon from the control center to remove them, you get this error: Failed to delete user GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed: running '/usr/sbin/userdel' failed: /usr/sbin/userdel returned an error (1): userdel: cannot remove entry 'tbushnell' from /etc/passwd And alas, the user then stays in the system database. Please make it possible to remove users from the system database even if deluser and userdel don't work on them. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/988072/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Touch-packages] [Bug 988072] Re: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd
Any manual workarounds for this? The number of users that shows up in the lighdm login window keeps growing with each person that logs in. I'm going to have to remove the picker if I can't delete these AD (LDAP) based users from our laptop fleet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988072 Title: Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Thanks to nss, there are many ways for a user account to exist. If you have user accounts authenticated with LDAP (say), and use nss tables other than passwd to store user information, then you find that the system automatically creates an entry in the user account database on login. This is handy: it means the user gets listed by lightdm in the greeter, for example, and things like background and keyboard prefs can be known to the greeter. It's all good. However, these users cannot be deleted. If you use the accounts-daemon from the control center to remove them, you get this error: Failed to delete user GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed: running '/usr/sbin/userdel' failed: /usr/sbin/userdel returned an error (1): userdel: cannot remove entry 'tbushnell' from /etc/passwd And alas, the user then stays in the system database. Please make it possible to remove users from the system database even if deluser and userdel don't work on them. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/988072/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
