Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
The user-admin tools allows you to change the home directory for a user
in the advanced tab of user properties but when you close the tool it
fails to update /etc/passwd! If it's not intended to work this option
should be greyed out, otherwise it should work...
I encountered this after installing a fresh karmic on a two-user system
with a separate /home partition (previously running karmic beta). I
wanted to restore one of the old user accounts but had neglected to
preserve the passwd files so thought I'd just create a new user with the
same name. The tool complained that the home directory already existed
for that user so I created it with a different home dir instead.
Afterwards when I tried to change the home dir to what it should have
been it appeared to work in the GUI but had no effect.
This whole faff could have been avoided if the tool gave me the option
to use the existing home dir when re-creating the user (after all, I
know what I'm doing).
Regards,
Robert
** Affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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users-admin lies about changing home directory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484501
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