Add user in User Accounts not displaying /etc/passwd users

[larzeb]

I have created a new user and group from the cli. I needed to create the new user and group with specific IDs. They both show up in /etc/passwd and /etc/group.

However, this user is not available to add in the Unity User Accounts gui. In fact, the drop-down is disabled.

How can I enable this user to login to the gui?

[grahammechanical]

You could have done this through User Accounts but we need to Unlock the utility and enter our administrator password. I am assuming that you are using 14.04. There should be a button that says Unlock.

[steeldriver]

What uid, specifically? is it less than the default lightdm minimum-uid?

[larzeb]

Yes, I did unlock the the utility.

816 is the UID and GID. What is the minimum?

[steeldriver]

I'm not sure what you mean by the Unity User Accounts gui, but afaik the default minimum-uid to get the account to display in the lightdm greeter GUI is 1000

In 12.04, the setting is in /etc/lightdm/users.conf however I think it may have moved to somewhere in a conf.d/ directory in 14.04 - sorry I don't know for sure

[UserAccounts]
minimum-uid=500

[Elfy]

/etc/lightdm/users.conf

Still the same in 14.04 and 14.10 for Xubuntu, I'd assume the same elsewhere

[larzeb]

The minimum is already set to 500 in /etc/lightdm/users.conf.

[UserAccounts]
minimum-uid=500
hidden-users=nobody nobody4 noaccess
hidden-shells=/bin/false /usr/sbin/nologin

[larzeb]

I noticed another post pertinent to my problem. See the response by Sebastian Tylkowski.

I changed both the UID_MIN AND GID_MIN to 500 (both defaulted to 1000) in /etc/login.defs and my user showed up!