reassigning to gnome-control-center, unity-control-center doesn't exist in 13.10
** Package changed: unity-control-center (Ubuntu) => gnome-control- center (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1301404 Title: cannot create a username containing dot in ubuntu 13.10 64bit Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: It happened to me to try to create a username containing a dot such as name.surname on ubuntu 13.10 According to the "Users and Groups" tool (gnome-system-tool): Username must consists of: > lower case letters from the English alphabet > digits > any of the characters ".", "-" and "_" but trying to add a username like name.surname using that tool you will get an error window saying: "The configuration could not be saved" "an unknown error occurred" Opening a terminal and typing sudo useradd name.surname sudo passwd name.surname actually seems to work, but then the brand new user results to be completely NOT usable: - switching user selecting the new user from the top-right ubuntu icon on the top bar will lead to have a black screen - hard-rebooting and trying to select the new user will lead to be trapped in a loop: you insert the password onto the login tool, it seems to be loading the new user while after a while it gives again the login tool window and you can keep on inserting the password forever. At this point selecting a different user previously created without a dot will work as normal instead. uname -a Linux ubook- 3.11.0-18-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 18 21:11:14 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1301404/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
