[Bug 1237684] [NEW] lightdm-kde ignores greeter-hide-users and greeter-show-manual-login

[Thomas Ribbrock]

Public bug reported:

On a fresh install of Kubuntu 13.10 beta2 with all updates (lightdm
1.8.0), lightdm seems to ignore the setting of both greeter-hide-users
and greeter-show-manual-login in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. In my case,
this file looks like:

[SeatDefaults]
user-session=kde-plasma
greeter-session=lightdm-kde-greeter
greeter-hide-users=true
greeter-show-manual-login=true
allow-guest=false

With these settings, no user list should be displayed (which is
corporate policy here) and a manual login should be displayed. Despite
these settings, the user list is still displayed and no manual login is
shown. Is looks as if lightdm silently ignores those settings, although
the conf file is being read (see attached log). To make matters worse,
the missing manual login means that noone can log in, as we are using
NIS and NIS users are not displayed (see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1012147).

For now, the only workaround for us is to install kdm and use that
instead - that session manager just shows a manual login out-of-the-box.

** Affects: lightdm-kde (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Attachment added: "lightdm.log"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1237684/+attachment/3870104/+files/lightdm.log

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