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Pop-OS User missing from Login Screen

After reinstalling Pop-OS on my machine, my login account wasn't visible on the login screen, but it was still fully functional when I entered my username and password. After a good bit of searching, I discovered that the installer had marked the existing accounts as system accounts. Changing them back solved the problem. This is how I made the change.

sudo vim /var/lib/AccountsService/users/<old username>

Change the line that looks like the following

SystemAccount=true

to

SystemAccount=false

Restart the accounts daemon to realize the change.

sudo systemctl restart accounts-daemon.service

When you log out you should see your user on the login screen.