How to: get lightdm to display user icon when your ~/ is locked down [private]

[vinnywright]

OK the scenario......
you have multiple users on your system and you have changed permissions on /home/you so every one but you and your group is forbidden access to /home/you .

well now lightdm cant read your .face icon ,,,,, but their is hope.

if you go to /var/lib/AccountsService/icons and add a folder named your user name like this (we will use mine in the example so replace vinny with yours)

/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/vinny/

then place the ~/.face you were using in it.

now go to

/var/lib/AccountsService/users/

and you will see a .txt file with your user name their already, open it and add the line

Icon=/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/vinny/.face

so it looks like this

[User]
XSession=kde-plasma
Icon=/var/lib/AccountsService/icons/vinny/.face

save exit and reboot ,,,,,,,,behold your icon is back

you will nead to be root so do the "kdesudo dolphin" thing or use your root actions service menus

VINNY