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Changes in 0.6.30
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* Minor source clean ups
* Crasher fix on 32bit systems
* Add get_user_by_id
* Don't lose sessions list for users at startup
* Add API for detecting when accountsservice is unavailable

Changes in 0.6.29
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* Translate D-Bus errors to local errors in libaccountsservice
* Fix a wrong property name n the login history support

Changes in 0.6.28
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* Fix act_user_manager_delete_user_finish
* Fix handling of LoginTime and LoginHistory properties

Changes in 0.6.27
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* Fix warnings when the singleton user manager object is finalized
* Generated docs for libaccountsservice
* Initialize local_acount to TRUE
* Add async api for user creation, caching and deletion

Changes in 0.6.26
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* Require libsystemd-login 186
* Protect against deleting root user
* Add LoginTime and LoginHistory properties
* fix crash consolekit code
* fix has_multiple_user property after removing user

Changes in 0.6.25
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* Uninitialized variable fix
* Typo fix
* Create data dirs just-in-time
* Ignore closing sessions for is_logged_in test
* Disable NULL user for delete_user call
* Translation updates

Changes in 0.6.24
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* add User.Local property for identifying local users

Changes in 0.6.23
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* Fix up some debug output
* add new CacheUser and UncacheUser apis
* uncache user before deleting user

Changes in 0.6.22
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* Correct CVE-2012-2737, local file disclosure

* small memory leak fix

* exclude system accounts from ListCachedUsers

* make has-multiple-users properly only check non-system users

* remove icon when deleting user

* Revert usage of getpwent() as fallback for fgetpwent

* support consolekit call cancellation to prevent crashes caused
  by shortlived sessions

* ignore built files in .gitignore
* quiet down build goo nagging

Changes in 0.6.21
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* Detect old versions of systemd and fall back to ConsoleKit

* Exclude users without a valid shell

* Fix log spew

Changes in 0.6.20
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* Fix user listing which broke in previous release

Changes in 0.6.19
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* Fix spurious warnings in logs

* Make userdel succeed even if user is already logged in

* Exclude users with no shell

* Exclude "at" user

Changes in 0.6.18
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* Fix systemd configure check

* Add a few more common system accounts to the blacklist

* Fix some issues in systemd session handling

Changes in 0.6.17
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* Fix user filtering which was broken in 0.6.16

* Fix double free in user code

Changes in 0.6.16
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* Don't filter out users below UID_MIN in login.defs

* Filter out users with invalid shells

* build fixes for srcdir != builddir

* Port to GDBus

* Add systemd support

* vala support and introspection fixes

* ppc32 fixes

* use infinite timeout for ListCachedUsers calls

* translation updates

Changes in 0.6.15
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* fix build on FreeBSD and OpenBSD

* only accept regular files as icons

* don't track non-graphical sessions

* fix wtmp handling

Changes in 0.6.14
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* ignore extraneous SetAutomaticLogin(false) calls for a user

* monitor /etc/gdm/custom.conf for changes in autologin config

* fix fast user switching

* fix docs to build

* translation updates


Changes in 0.6.13
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* honor aclocal flags environment variable

* set log domain so it can be hushed

* use wtmp instead of consolekit for determining login frequency

* leak and warning fixes

* clean up polkit deprectation warnings

* add '--' before username to account helper programs

Changes in 0.6.12
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* The usual pile of race fixes

Changes in 0.6.11
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* Add API for creating users to the library

Changes in 0.6.10
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* An assortment of race fixes

* Translation Updates

Changes in 0.6.8
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* Fix parsing of gdm config file

Changes in 0.6.7
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* Fix call to useradd for normal users

* Correct free array of groups

* Translation Updates

Changes in 0.6.6
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* Make it possible to disable user icon

* Drop Supervised user role

* Use "wheel" instead of "desktop_admin_r" as admin group
  since that's what everyone uses for this purpose anyway.

* Crasher fixes

* Translation Updates

* Misc distro integration fixes

Changes in 0.6.5
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* No longer return excluded users from cached listings

* Add a --debug command line option

* Use proper dbus proxy for settings api in client lib

* Expose XSession property over bus

Changes in 0.6.4
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* minor fixes

Changes in 0.6.3
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* Add more getters to client library

* Add an initial cut at a setter api

* Add XSession property type

Changes in 0.6.2
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* Remove the unused UserChanged signal

* Add a small client library, based on code from gdm

* Don't use gnome-common

* Use the user-administration privilege for autologin changes

Changes in 0.6.1
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* Always emit the changed signal when setting user photo

* Install systemd unit files

* Add Polish translations

Changes in 0.6
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* Many changes after code review by Miroslav Trmac:
 - Always require user-administration privilege when setting a password
   or changing a username
 - Allow changing password mode and password even when the account is
   locked, and unlock it as a side-effect
 - Use /etc/shadow to store account locking and 'set password at next
   login' information and monitor /etc/shadow for changes
 - Set loginuid when runing commands on behalf of a user to generate
   proper audit records
 - Drop SetIconData and make SetIconFile copy the file when appropriate.
   As a consequence, the service no longer links against image libraries.
 - Various other robustness and error-handling fixes

Changes in 0.5
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* Make initial user list call work

* Avoid extraneous commandline parsing