On 2013-12-02 20:27, L Peter Deutsch wrote:
> I did edit /etc/adduser.conf to limit the range of system user and
> group IDs to 0-199 rather than 0-999, because I'm going to be copying
> a /home hierarchy from an earlier release that used those values and
> all the user IDs I added are in the range 200-999, but unless the
> 0-999 range is hardwired into LightDM or AccountsService or some
> other new piece of system software, this shouldn't cause the users to
> be invisible.

accountsservice only shows users with user ID 1000 and above. Actually,
creating users with ID < 1000 is a possible workaround if you *want*
them to not be listed on the login screen.

> The system is unusable until I solve it, because none of the real
> users on the system can log in through the initial login screen,

You can configure lightdm so unity-greeter offers the option to type a
username that is not listed. In lightdm.conf:

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-show-manual-login=true

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