Bug#854792: fails when there are two users with the same UID

[Michael Biebl]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 01:58:36 +0100 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
> Dear Emilio,
> 
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > > Summary: accounts-daemon.service fails to work properly when there are
> > > two users in the system with the same UID.
> [...]
> > I'm not sure that's a system configuration that is supported.
> 
> it's a not seldom thing to have a second root account which is often

system accounts, including uid=0 (root), are filtered out by
accountsservice. So this is a non-issue.


I can't come up with a good use case, why one would want the same uid
for unprivileged users.


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