It appeared just like that, a quick searched suggested that it's a user created by a database application but why is it on my login screen?
3 Answers
All users above user id 999 are shown on the login screen.
Set a user id below 999 for the user postgres with sudo usermod -u 999 postgres
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Or you can add the user to the ignore list with:
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/users.conf
find the line hidden-users=
and add postgres to that line.
As soon as the user id is greater than 999, it shows.
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A method how to remove the user from the login-screen would be nice.– Byte Commander ♦May 4, 2015 at 11:13
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1I agree with ByteCommand, though technically the answer addresses the question. May 4, 2015 at 18:25
whenever an user has an id
greater than 999, it shows at the login screen, to remove this you an reduce the login id
for doing this you have to install user and accounts options
of gnome desktop for this
$sudo apt-get install gnome-system-tools
and after installing this you will be get
and then
and then goto
- advanced settings and decrease the id of the selected user