Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
Current behaviour is: The "users" group exists but is not populated (empty). When setting up a (set group ID) group directory (i.e. /home/group/users) users can not collaborate on files in that directory. As long as g-s-t is overriding the groups for new users its profiles should default to add new users to the users group. Changed (repaired) behaviour would be: * Users are added to the "users" group on creation, so that group directories for "users" are functional again. * To fix extisting users users-admin could offer to add all existing users (according to adduser.conf: FIRST_UID / LAST_UID) manually/scripted to the users group if it finds some that don't belong to the users group. There should be no security risk involved, because no files belonging to the users group are created by default and at the same time users is applied as the primary group to users when (private) USERGROUPS are disabled in /etc/adduser.conf. The users group is generally used as a group refering to all users, and is important to make the user private group scheme work as designed. (this issue is filed in the context of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiUserManagement ) ** Affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- users-admin: users are not added to "users" group https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
