Yann,
Many thanks.
-Charles
On 10/22/07, Yann Rouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok I had some time to investigate what I discovered (in comment 68).
Still not sure if it's the cause of this bug but I am now able to
reliably reproduce a serious similar bug:
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Charles R. Twardy
Science is
My thanks too Yann,
That is more or less what happened to me.
On 10/22/07, Charles Twardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yann,
Many thanks.
-Charles
On 10/22/07, Yann Rouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok I had some time to investigate what I discovered (in comment 68).
Still not sure if
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PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:05:40 + Subject: [Bug 26338] Re:
Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords **
Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Target: ubuntu-7.10-beta
I booted into recovery changed password. Thanks for the help!
Tom
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:02:42 + Subject:
Re: [Bug 26338] Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users'
groups and passwords First
First, boot to recovery mode or boot from the CD again. That gives
you root access and you can change passwords using passwd. Also, you
can view /etc/group and /etc/passwd to see if your regular signon was
modified.
Note: no one else here has yet reported a problem with the
*command-line*
Thanks.
I sent this note over to the developer at Ubuntu who owns this bug. He may
or may not be contacting you,
On 9/4/07, zoobloik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I just installed Xubuntu 7.04 onto an old-ish laptop (that was previously
running an old release of slackware linux). The initial
Charles Twardy [2007-07-17 1:03 -]:
Anyone have a fresh spare machine they can experiment on? Does this happen
from a fresh install? If there's extraneous entries in the files? If
you mix adduser and users-admin? Or useradd?
Doing these experiments, and finding which steps lead to
Hi David,
David Green [2007-07-07 13:00 -]:
Martin,
Any updates on this bug and when it will be fixed? All I see on Launchpad
is that it has been marked as critical. I am still getting emails from
other users that it is a problem and it seems a pretty critical one.
Because of some of
Hmm Well it has been a while since I looked at it but all I did to
create the bug was use the GUI user-admin too to reassign a user to a
group. I noticed after that that directories the users should have had
access to they did not. Further investigation showed that they were not in
the
Likewise, most of the reports did very simple things. I tried to add a new
user. (However, it's also likely that a defunct user of the same name was
in /etc/group or /etc/passwd because once upon a time those had been
copied from another machine.)
But it stands to reason that it doesn't happen
My machine was a fresh Dapper Drake install. The users in question were
all newly created ones. I created users, then created groups. Then I
started adding users to groups. After I exited the admin tool and saved the
changes I went to configure the printer and could not. I tracked it back to
Charles,
Thanks for the updates. It's been at least 8 months since I looked at this
but I guess it is still not fixed. I had to drop Ubuntu since this bug
meant it failed (miserably) my company's security criteria.
thanks again,
David
On 7/12/07, Charles Twardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Martin,
Any updates on this bug and when it will be fixed? All I see on Launchpad
is that it has been marked as critical. I am still getting emails from
other users that it is a problem and it seems a pretty critical one.
Because of some of my company requirements until this bug is fixed I
Martin,
Thanks for the update. I'd kinda forgotten about this. :)
David Green
On 12/12/06, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David, your last concern is bug 59946, and in the process of being
fixed.
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