** Changed in: gst
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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Title:
in users-admin the name 'root' is checked instead of uid 0
Status in The Gnome System Tools:
Won't Fix
Status in “gnome-system-tools” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
System: Ubuntu 8.04.1 Package: gnome-system-tools 2.22.0
I use an alternate root user with login capabilities, created with "useradd
-u 0 -o -g 0 -G 0 -m -s /bin/bash superuser", and i often login graphically
with him. I know this is not in the Ubuntu policy, but this can be done in
every Linux system so should be handled correctly. I made some experiments and
saw that if in the /etc/passwd my superuser comes before the root user,
users-admin doesn't recognize him as root. I found out that in
users/users-settings.c function is_user_root uses login =
oobs_user_get_login_name (user) and strcmp (login, "root") == 0. I think this
should be corrected with something like uid = oobs_user_get_uid(user) and uid
== 0. Because any user with uid = 0 has root privileges and should be treated
as root whatever his name is. Thanks for your attention. Best regards.
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