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help with users in ubuntu 23.04 (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everybody, I recently reinstalled ubuntu 23.04 on my laptop. I had a backup of my old home and copied that into my new home after installation, installed updates and rebooted. Sadly, I forgot to make myself the owner of those files before rebooting. Instead of the login screen where you would normally enter your password, It showed me a welcome screen where I had to create a new user. I did that, then fixed my earlier mistake, logged in as my real user and ran userdel to get rid of the account I had to create. However, now it always shows me this welcome screen and I always have to create a new user. If I go through that and log out, I can log in with my real user after clicking on "not listed?" on the login screen. I could just reinstall again, but is there a way to fix this?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It sucks, but I think reinstalling is the easiest way to fix this. Don't forget to change ownership this time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ubuntu uses GDM: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hide user from login list

The users for the gdm user list are gathered by AccountsService. It will automatically hide system users (UID < 1000). To hide ordinary users from the login list create or edit a file named after the user to hide in /var/lib/AccountsService/users/ to contain at least:

/var/lib/AccountsService/users/username

[User] SystemAccount=true

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the hint, but disabling the unneeded user just caused the welcome screen to show up again. I just reinstalled it now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Have tried autologin