[lug] Unhiding Ubuntu Accounts

[Bear Giles]

It's a gdm3 setting but I don't know where it is. I think the default is to
list all users with an ID >= 1000 but you can override it with a
configuration file.

Have you tried "$ sudo find / -type f -exec grep -l old-user-name {} \;
2>/dev/null" ?

I think you can also use "$ sudo grep -r old-user-name /etc/* 2>/dev/null"
but I'm not 100 sure. E.g., it might miss any dot-files.

(The "2>/dev/null" is because the searches can be noisy with "no
permissions" messages even if you're running as root.)

Bear

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 1:19 PM D. Stimits <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> > On 11/25/2020 1:06 PM Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 11/25/20 1:57 PM, D. Stimits wrote:
> > > Looks like all of that was correct, e.g., ID number. This was actually
> an issue of using usermod to rename the account which already had all of
> those settings enabled, but the X GUI login itself still uses the old name
> which does not even exist now. It is a new system, so I am going to just
> see if I can install some other version of Linux while there is nothing to
> harm.
> >
> > Well if you want to. It's kind of a Windows way to fix things and you'll
> > never learn what was actually going on.
>
> You are of course correct. Unfortunately, I have been working on this
> since Friday of last week, have been fixing issues since then, and want it
> online before tonight. Much more fun when there is no time crunch. :(
>
> I wanted to switch to Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu anyway, so it was always a
> guarantee Ubuntu was history.
> >
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