[LightDM] Controlling Which Users Show Up in Greeter

[Robert Ancell]

LightDM uses accounts service preferentially and falls back to it's
own internal version if it's not available (using users.conf).  I gets
the list of available users, their full names and preferences like
session etc for them.

AccountsService is missing a user filter, see this bug for more information:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41908

--Robert

On 24 March 2012 02:33, David A. Cobb <superbiskit at cox.net> wrote:
> I cannot seem to hide some users (or select specific ones) on the greeter.
> I set up the  /etc/lightdm/users.conf;  at first it worked -- partially:
>  some, but not all of the "hidden-users" did not show up.
>
> Then, some upgrade re-installed accounts-service.  That completely undid it!
>  Now several usernames that do not represent real people are back on my
> greeter.  It doesn't limit using the system, of course, it just looks
> unprofessional.
>
> Evidently, I won't be able to keep accounts-service off my machine -- it
> might even have some use.
> So: can someone please advise me -- what info does the greeter request from
> the accounts-service, and how can the accounts-service be configured to
> return only selected usernames?
>
> TIA
>
>
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