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rgzfxf6bhu

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Registered: 2015-10-30

Posts: 100

Hiding user from login list in gdm not working

Since accountsservice 0.6.53-1 it is not possible to hide users from gdm anymore.

How to reproduce:

1. Follow instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … login_list and set SystemAccount to true:

SystemAccount=true

2. Restart and see that account is still visible at gdm login screen.

OlliC

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Registered: 2015-09-28

Posts: 18

Re: Hiding user from login list in gdm not working

Same problem. Also the user icons are not showing or were resetted after upgrade to Gnome 3.30.

Edit: Also there is a "git daemon user" in the user account settings that i do not see in GDM.

Last edited by OlliC (2018-09-28 08:24:06)

mmarzantowicz

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Registered: 2015-12-28

Posts: 32

Re: Hiding user from login list in gdm not working

This is because for some reason

/var/lib/accountsservice

is created instead of using

/var/lib/AccountsService

I'm not sure if it's failure in accountsservice package or more likely in some part of GNOME "break your desktop" environment.

rgzfxf6bhu

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Registered: 2015-10-30

Posts: 100

Re: Hiding user from login list in gdm not working

Might be this?
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accounts … 05a691984b

Also when checking the pacman log:

...
[2018-09-26 12:13] [ALPM] upgraded gdm (3.30.0+6+g5db19c5b-1 -> 3.30.1-1)
...
[2018-09-27 07:11] [ALPM] upgraded accountsservice (0.6.50-1 -> 0.6.53-1)
...

And check the time of the following:

ls -la /var/lib/AccountsService/users/gdm 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 Sep 27 07:10 /var/lib/AccountsService/users/gdm

So seems an issue related to accountsservice 0.6.53-1.

Last edited by rgzfxf6bhu (2018-09-28 14:24:52)