Comment 6 for bug 873784

Hi,

accountsservice is supposed to list a merged list of two types of users:

1) local users
2) remote users that have logged in to this specific machine before

we approximate 1) by reading /etc/passwd and we approximate 2) by looking at wtmp.
I say approximate, because there are configurations where both 1 and 2 fall down.

getpwent() is always wrong since it's blocking and potentially very slow, and gives users that aren't in class 1 or 2 above. The commit you referenced is wrong and probably shouldn't have gone in.