Since so many components are involved a fix/change might have been missed. And since I recently didn't hear anything about this otherwise rather hot bug I was giving focal a try.
It turns out that this was indeed improved. Only the user of pkg:ifmail user fdt name "Fidonet" is still visible. All other formerly affected packages are good in Focal. I can't (without digging through history a lot) say what fixed that but I'll update the bug tasks accordingly. Setting Focal fixed and marking Bionic/Xenial as still affected releases. The backport tasks for those packages are incomplete thou as it is unclear which change in which package fixed it for Focal. Note: This is only speaking for the "default config" of Ubuntu Desktop as in 20.04 we know that certain environments will behave differently (e.g. KDE never was affected). ** Also affects: ifmail (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ceph (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: netqmail (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: sddm (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ifmail (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ceph (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: netqmail (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: sddm (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial) ** No longer affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu Bionic) ** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: ceph (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released ** No longer affects: ifmail (Ubuntu Xenial) ** No longer affects: ifmail (Ubuntu Bionic) ** No longer affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial) ** No longer affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Bionic) ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: netqmail (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: netqmail (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: netqmail (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released ** No longer affects: sddm (Ubuntu Xenial) ** No longer affects: sddm (Ubuntu Bionic) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857651 Title: Unable to hide users from login screen / user switcher Status in accountsservice: Unknown Status in SDDM: Fix Released Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in ceph package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ifmail package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in netqmail package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in sddm package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ceph source package in Xenial: Incomplete Status in libvirt source package in Xenial: Incomplete Status in netqmail source package in Xenial: Incomplete Status in ceph source package in Bionic: Incomplete Status in libvirt source package in Bionic: Incomplete Status in netqmail source package in Bionic: Incomplete Bug description: Users that I have appended to the 'hidden-users' field in /etc/lightdm/users.conf are not actually hidden. They are still listed on the login screen and in Unity's user switching menu. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Sep 23 11:44:29 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413) SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (0 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.users.conf: 2011-09-23T08:46:55.039175 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/accountsservice/+bug/857651/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp