User with UID above 500 don't show up in User Manager

[daihard]

Hi.

Is there a way to force Plasma to display users whose user ID (UID) is above 500? I changed my UID to 613 in order to comply with my NIS user ID at work. This is necessary for me to access our work resource.

After I changed the UID, my information doesn't show up in the User Manager dialogue anymore. My name is "Daigoro Toyama," which used to appear above "Freddie Toyama."



I had the same issue with the greeter screen but was able to solve it by adding my own /etc/sddm.conf with the following entry.

# Minimum user id for displayed users
MinimumUid=500 #My UID is 613

Is there a similar trick to get User Manager to display such users? Thanks in advance!

[GreyGeek]

You could install kuser to handle user information.

[daihard]

You could install kuser to handle user information.

Thanks, I just tried it. Unfortunately, kuser doesn't allow me to change my account picture, which is what I want to do with User Manager. If all I wanted to do was manage user information, I could use usermod.

[vinnywright]

try putting your icon in

/usr/share/sddm/faces/vinny.face.icon

changing "vinny" to your user name .

this used to work ,,,,but it keeps changing .

VINNY

[oshunluvr]

The way I did this was to put a symlink for each user as /home/<USERNAME>/.face.icon that links to whatever face icon you want to use. Then I launched systemsettings5 using kdesudo and assigned each user (I have 5) to the file (symlink) named .face.icon in their home folders.

[daihard]

The way I did this was to put a symlink for each user as /home/<USERNAME>/.face.icon that links to whatever face icon you want to use. Then I launched systemsettings5 using kdesudo and assigned each user (I have 5) to the file (symlink) named .face.icon in their home folders.

Thanks! Creating a symlink ~/.face.icon from my preferred avatar image worked. User Manager still doesn't show my account (even with kdesudo), but that's secondary now. I've achieved what I wanted to.

[oshunluvr]

Thanks! Creating a symlink ~/.face.icon from my preferred avatar image worked. User Manager still doesn't show my account (even with kdesudo), but that's secondary now. I've achieved what I wanted to.

Glad that worked. I looked around for quite a bit trying to find the real answer - that is, enabling a min UID of 500 - but no joy. Lot's of distros use 500 so there has to be a way, I just couldn't find it.

[Snowhog]

I looked around for quite a bit trying to find the real answer - that is, enabling a min UID of 500 - but no joy.

Maybe https://askubuntu.com/questions/8036...e-and-uid-1000

[oshunluvr]

There's also /etc/adduser.conf

https://askubuntu.com/questions/6599...ation-behavior

[kubicle]

There's also /etc/adduser.conf

https://askubuntu.com/questions/6599...ation-behavior

Yes, but that only affects user generation with "adduser". User Manager will follow the settings from /etc/login.defs for what it'll show (note that this also affects useradd...which is not the same command as adduser, a higher level command).