Question

10

My Account not visible in User Accounts

rated 0 times [ 10] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 10525 / 2 Years ago, wed, may 18, 2022, 2:43:42

I am currently set to automatically log into this machine and I would like to change that. However, when I go to User Accounts, I am no longer listed.

lightdm/users.conf file is as such:

[UserAccounts]

minimum-uid=500

hidden-users=nobody nobody4 noaccess

hidden-shells=/bin/false /usr/sbin/nologin

My current UID is 503, username is none of the listed hidden-users, and my shell is /bin/bash.

Running Ubuntu 13.04 with Unity on a Dell Optiplex 3010.

Also, greeter-show-manual-login=true had to be put in lightdm.conf so that I could log in because my account does not show up on the greeter either.

no account under My Account

Answers

Only authorized users can answer the question. Please sign in first, or register a free account.

herriail

Add To Favorites

Follow

Total Points: 11

Total Questions: 122

Total Answers: 118

Location: Peru

Member since Tue, Mar 16, 2021

3 Years ago

herriail questions

1 How to set Vim as the default text editor in Linux (Ubuntu)?

Fri, Apr 7, 23, 19:31, 1 Year ago

1 Temporarily add multiple ip addresses to interface in 22.04

Tue, May 18, 21, 02:11, 3 Years ago

1 How disable show folder in desktop ubuntu?

Sun, Dec 12, 21, 06:06, 2 Years ago

1 Stremio doesn't launch on Ubuntu 22.04

Wed, May 24, 23, 01:42, 12 Months ago

1 APT upgrades a package and then asks for removing it

Sun, Jan 29, 23, 00:48, 1 Year ago

View All

answered 2 Years ago dresuitable · Accepted Answer

Castis' answer did not quite fix the issue for me, even after a full restart, on Ubuntu 16.04. After editing /etc/login.defs to change UID_MIN and GID_MIN from 1000 to 500, I could use adduser to create new accounts with low UIDs, but my old account (with UID 502) was still not being shown.

It seems that AccountsService was caching the fact that it once thought this was a system account. To fix this, I had to manually edit:
/var/lib/AccountsService/users/<username>.

In the [User] section, I had to change
SystemAccount=true to SystemAccount=false

After restarting the AccountsService daemon (sudo service accounts-daemon restart) my username reappeared in the System Settings->User Accounts GUI.

Notably, this was an account that was carried over from a previous install of 14.04, and had had its uid manually changed.