Comment 9 for bug 823718

@John: please don't comment on closed bugs, the bug tracker is not a forum or developer list

> So, to conclude, switching from .dmrc to AccountsService has actually reduced the flexibility of lightdm with no apparent gain in functionality (unless I miss something).

The reasons of using account service include:
- the fact that it has proper apis to use rather than having to deal with a not-well-documented keysfile
- the fact that GNOME standardized on using it (e.g gnome-control-center's users administration tools is using it, gdm is using it)
- it seems a better freedesktop standard way to do thing

That said accountsservice does has issue and we should work with upstream on fixing those, feel free to open bugs on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=accountsservice