Segreterie

Today, while trying to apply some personalization to my pc, I learned a new hack. So sharing it here, hope it might help some of you.Origin of the problem: I wanted to hide my administrator account from others. So first as a naive trick, I renamed it to Guest Session and created a standard user with my login name. But very obvious, It was not a good solution. So I looked for a way to re order the user names in login screen, so that the Guest Session I created would not appear in the list on top and will look like a normal guest login. While finding that I came across some posts saying, to hide the user from login screen.Yeah! that was something I was looking for. So here is the solution in few steps.

1. Hide the user

First make the `user` a system user, so it will get hidden from login screen.

<span class="nb">cd</span> /var/lib/AccountsService/users/
<span class="nb">sudo </span>vim user.conf

Here user is the name of the user you want to hide. Now, change following:

<span class="nv">SystemAccount</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nb">false</span>

To:

<span class="nv">SystemAccount</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nb">true</span>

So, you hid your user. Now How will you login? For that you need a manual login method.

2. Add manual login option

<span class="nb">sudo </span>vim /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-ubuntu.conf

add the following line at last,

greeter-show-manual-login<span class="o">=</span><span class="nb">true</span>

Done.
Now you can reboot the system. You will see there is no login for $USER. Although there will be an option to login manually using username and password. Go for it!

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Segreterie

How to hide a user from login screen in ubuntu 14.04

1. Hide the user

2. Add manual login option

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