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killkrt

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From: Italy

Registered: 2016-02-24

Posts: 35

[?] Cannot see my user in GDM login screen

Hi,

Since when I have changed my UID to 501, I cannot see anymore my user in the GDM login screen.
I've already tried the following solution but they didn't work:

• Updated /etc/pam.d/gdm-password adding this line

  auth     sufficient      pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet

• Updated the file /etc/login.defs changing these lines:

  UID_MIN                   500
  # System accounts
  SYS_UID_MIN               100
  SYS_UID_MAX               499

Could you help me?

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: [?] Cannot see my user in GDM login screen

As far as I know, GDM has a hard-coded value of 1000 as the minimum user ID. At least that was the case a few years back.

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Matt

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killkrt

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From: Italy

Registered: 2016-02-24

Posts: 35

Re: [?] Cannot see my user in GDM login screen

The strange thing that I've noticed is that if I start GDM using

sudo systemctl restart gdm.service

Everything works correctly, so I can see my user (and also autologin is working).
Than if I made a log-out or reboot the system GDM doesn't show anymore my user.