How to hide a user from login screen in ubuntu 14.04
1. Hide the user
First make the `user` a system user, so it will get hidden from login screen.
cd /var/lib/AccountsService/users/
sudo vim user.conf
Here user is the name of the user you want to hide. Now, change following:
SystemAccount=false
To:
SystemAccount=true
So, you hid your user. Now How will you login? For that you need a manual login method.
2. Add manual login option
sudo vim /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-ubuntu.conf
add the following line at last,
greeter-show-manual-login=true
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!