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Hide certain users from login screen greeter (Ubuntu 19.10)

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Hi I just finished installing Ubuntu 19.10 on my daughter's computer.
I want to hide my own account from the login greeter.
I found a way to hide the list of all accounts but that is not really what I want, because that way you need to type the username then and password and it is inconvenient.

Is there a way to only hide certain accounts from the greeter? While still retaining the feature of showing the remaining accounts (not all of them) and just click a user and only type the password?

I've found instructions for Ubuntu 18.04 but they didn't work in 19.10

Thank you

Josh

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answered 2 Years ago urnaetted · Accepted Answer

Even though Its a duplicate of How do I hide a particular user from the login screen?

I have just tried it whether its working or not in Ubuntu 19.10 Fresh Install

It worked..

sudo -H nautilus /var/lib/AccountsService/users/

I have a, b, c, & d user accounts while bullet is my own account (Admin)

I would like to hide user a & c

so open file a and c and make SystemAccount field to true.

[User]

Icon=/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/a

SystemAccount=true

then logout and login

the same way I have hidden the Admin User also