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I'm running Arch Linux KDE. I would like SDDM to ignore certain users. However, even after adding the following config file, SDDM still displays all users. I tried both usernames and user ID's for the HideUsers parameters. Neither worked (all users were still displayed).

/etc/sddm.conf.d/uid.conf 
[Users]
DefaultPath=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
HideShells=/sbin/nologin,/bin/false,/usr/bin/nologin,/usr/bin/git-shell
HideUsers=sue,sam,joe,jess
MaximumUid=1005
MinimumUid=1000
RememberLastSession=false
RememberLastUser=true

I also tried doing the config via KDE system settings GUI with no results. In all cases, all users are displayed regardless of any config changes I make. There are no other config files in /etc/sddm.conf.d/ and the main config (/etc/sddm.conf) does not have any conflicting settings. (In fact, I mirrored these settings in the main config and I tried this without any uid.conf at all, just using the main config. Again, all users are displayed regardless of any config changes.)

EDIT

As the config file shows, I have specified HideShells. As a temporary test, I also tried setting certain user accounts to have the /sbin/nologin in /etc/passwd, but even that did not prevent these user accounts from being displayed by SDDM. Crazy.

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I found that SDDM has, by default apparently, another config file located at /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d/sddm.conf. After editing that file the same way I had previously edited /etc/sddm.conf.d/uid.conf, the issue is solved.

As an aside, unless someone knows otherwise, I consider this a bug. Config files in /usr/lib/ should not take precedence over config files in /etc/, right?

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