Bug 34893

Summary:	accountsservice ignores /etc/login.defs and has hard-coded DEFAULT_MINIMAL_UID
Product:	accountsservice	Reporter:	Benedikt Morbach <moben>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Benedikt Morbach 2011-03-01 18:10:34 UTC

Problem:
GDM/accountsservice shows system users / misses normal users.

Cause:
accountsservice has a hardcoded value (500) for MINIMAL_UID in src/daemon.c and does not respect the (SYS)_UID_(MIN|MAX) values from /etc/login.defs
This either leads to system users showing up e.g. in gdm or to normal users being missing (less likely), because on different distributions, UIDs for normal users start e.g. at 1000

Expected Behaviour:
It should either read /etc/login.defs
or provide an option to change MINIMAL_UID, at least at compile time

See also:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623225
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/427462
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/459199

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2011-03-17 11:28:50 UTC

Thanks, this should be covered by

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=fdb2cbeafce21c9b79f7617706360bc3a87d72f3

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