How-To limit user-names in LightDM login-screen when AccountsService is used

Posted by David A. Cobb on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by David A. Cobb
Published on 2012-03-19T16:49:44Z Indexed on 2012/03/19 18:14 UTC
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I have several "user" names in passwd that don't represent real people, and that should not appear on the LightDM login-screen. The lightdm-gtk-greeter configuration file clearly says that if AccountsService is installed, the program uses that and ignores its owh configureation files. HOWEVER, there is less than nothing for documentation about how to configure AccountsService! Please, can someone tell me how to configure the system so that only an explicitly specified group of users are shown on the greeter? I could uninstall AccountsService. I did that before, but it comes back (dependencies, I suppose).

TIA

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