[Bug 255980] Re: in users-admin the name 'root' is checked instead of uid 0

2010-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Wishlist ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- in users-admin the name 'root' is checked instead of uid 0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255980 You received this bug notification

[Bug 157920] Re: Users and group manager should warn before making dangerous changes

2010-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
In 2.29.2 we hide root, and don't allow the last admin to be removed. If user is about to lose its own admin rights, we warn him. For home directory, there will be more improvements to come, like making user the owner of the dir. ** Also affects: gst Importance: Undecided Status: New

[Bug 107422] Re: [users-admin] Unexpected display of /etc/group NIS entry

2010-01-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Summary changed: - Unexpected display of /etc/group nfs entry in the user setting interface. + [users-admin] Unexpected display of /etc/group NIS entry -- [users-admin] Unexpected display of /etc/group NIS entry https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107422 You received this bug notification

[Bug 505323] Re: Can't access GDM's power menu with keyboard

2010-01-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Confirmed for the power menu part. But you can choose language (Alt+L) and log in right after, just type the password and hit Return. ** Summary changed: - karmic gnome login requires mouse + Can't access GDM's power menu with keyboard ** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) = gdm

[Bug 501976] Re: Users-admin password-password confirm requires 2 Tab keys

2010-01-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Good catch indeed! That's the button used to change password when the selected user is the current one. Does the bug appear only with that user? In other cases, it should be hidden. Anyway, this hack should go away in the next release, with a more generic dialog from upstream. -- Users-admin

[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration

2010-01-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
/usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m U$ This is a bad copy/paste: U$ can't work, obviously, that should be UsersConfig. /usr/sbin/system-tools-backends Should be /usr/bin/system-tools-backends in 8.04. Anyway, you don't need to run those to perform the test I

[Bug 501976] Re: Users-admin password-password confirm requires 2 Tab keys

2010-01-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Chris, you said you were able to reproduce the problem too? So that wouldn't be specific to the reporter's configuration... I'm absolutely not able to see this, maybe I'll have to get the package form Lucid. -- Users-admin password-password confirm requires 2 Tab keys

[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration

2010-01-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
OK, sorry for the delay Roger. So if I understand correctly, the only way to reproduce this problem is to create a new user when the users list appears empty? That would be logical, since we commit the data we have, which would be empty if it could not be loaded. But do you mean that the second

[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration

2010-01-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
This Debian bug is not related at all. ** Changed in: debian Importance: Unknown = Undecided ** Changed in: debian Status: Fix Released = New ** Changed in: debian Remote watch: Debian Bug tracker #470123 = None ** Changed in: debian Status: New = Invalid ** Also affects:

[Bug 240437] Re: Creating an user destroys most of users and groups configuration

2010-01-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
What I asked Xande to test should be interesting for you too: One interesting test (for both of you) would be to start the scripts before starting users-admin, and to compare the startup times: start users-admin once, run it again and see the time it needs, then wait for 5 minutes so that the

[Bug 503946] Re: Password box greyed out connecting to a hidden wirless network

2010-01-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for your report. Actually, you're not using network-admin from the gnome-network-admin package, but network-manager. Reassigning. I think you should tell us what kind of encryption is using your network: WEP or WPA? And what type of password authentication too. ** Package changed:

[Bug 488158] Re: users-admin should leave adduser handle main group creation

2010-01-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Good news, I've just finished a future patch that allows us to stop creating the main group ourselves. When creating an user, the backends can now omit the --gid option, and we let adduser (and equivalents) do the work. This is simpler for everyone. Should be in the next release. Now I need to

[Bug 485641] Re: [network-admin] Modem connection types not listed

2010-01-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Changed in: gst Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- [network-admin] Modem connection types not listed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485641 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. --

[Bug 157215] Re: [jaunty] Synchronizing with a time server does not work when time difference is greater than several hours

2010-01-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
If you are willing to help debugging this, then please run 'sudo ntpd -q' and report its output, and whether that fixes the problem. Is your clock highly different from the real hour, i.e. by hours as the title of the bug says? -- [jaunty] Synchronizing with a time server does not work when time

[Bug 206291] Re: [network-admin] Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: GtkComboBox.items

2010-01-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
ceciliavergara: Please don't open new tasks against upstream projects without any explanation. Why do you think this bug is still valid? I've just tried to reproduce it, and it seems be fixed. ** Changed in: gst Status: New = Invalid -- [network-admin] Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property:

[Bug 238183] Re: Useless memory consumption

2010-01-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
So by first time you mean first time from fresh boot; there's no package installation involved then. I think you're slightly wrong about memory usage, because the fact that every SystemToolsBackends perl process uses 10MB doesn't mean you can sum up those values to get the total: there's shared

[Bug 238183] Re: Useless memory consumption

2010-01-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
In Karmic, I can confirm that the -m Platform script does not die after 3 minutes, consuming 10MB until reboot. I'll give a look at this problem. Though, you mention in the description that there's a 90MB usage on first launch. I guess this comes from the package installation, isn't it? If that

[Bug 490093] Re: [users-admin] Password is reset to old value when it's been changed using about-me

2010-01-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Pjotr12345: please report your problem separately against the package 'passwd', this has nothing to do with the present bug. BTW, when changing your own password, you should use 'passwd' instead of 'sudo passwd'. The latter won't update your eCryptfs Private dir and your main keyring password.

[Bug 210710] Re: System Admin Users and Groups: only root available

2009-12-30 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
It's not unlikely that users-admin itself has introduced those broken settings, but we can't really be sure. I'd need a list of all programs that may change this file (maybe there aren't at all). But that doesn't mean there isn't something broken here. I've checked our code, and everything seems

[Bug 501421] Re: [users-admin] Users-admin will does not show any users except 'root'

2009-12-29 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 210710 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210710 Hmm, seems a duplicate of bug 210710. Please follow the instructions I gave in my latest comment there, and I'll have a look. So far, your /etc/passwd file looks right to me. And AFAICT the root account is

[Bug 210710] Re: System Admin Users and Groups: only root available

2009-12-29 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
You could just try changing in /etc/login.defs UID_MAX 6 I think that should do the trick. Then it would mean the bug is in the program that set this value... -- System Admin Users and Groups: only root available https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210710 You received this bug notification

[Bug 210710] Re: System Admin Users and Groups: only root available

2009-12-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Could you follow the procedure at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnomeSystemTools#For%20Users%20[users- admin] to provide more information? This way we would be able to find out what's going on. Thanks! ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed ** Changed

[Bug 245809] Re: [hardy] Unlock button not in dialog

2009-12-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released -- [hardy] Unlock button not in dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245809 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing

[Bug 498970] Re: users-admin: shortname field does not update when name field is cleared.

2009-12-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for your report. This was indeed a silly detail that I've just fixed. It will be available in the next minor release. Please continue to report bugs about the gnome-system-tools, especially the next version that should land in Lucid in a month or so. Not many people do this, which makes

[Bug 484559] Re: Xubuntu: Cannot change own password because users-admin needs gnome-about-me

2009-12-17 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
If it's just for reviewing purposes, the only changes I added are in: about_me_path = g_find_program_in_path (gnome-about-me); show_passwd = (user != oobs_self_config_get_user (OOBS_SELF_CONFIG (GST_USERS_TOOL

[Bug 393854] Re: Update PAM policy to allow password-less logins set up via users-admin

2009-12-17 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
The rationale behind this feature vs. the standard nullok_secure way is that *you actually have a password*. This means users can be admins, type their password to use sudo, PolicyKit or lock their screen, but they are not asked to type it on login. They can additionally connect over local SSH for

[Bug 400130] Re: time-admin does not update time

2009-12-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
jxparo: are you sure you are in Manual mode? I've reinstalled the gnome- system-tools and I can still see this button in this mode. And I don't see the patch that used to hide it in Ubuntu. -- time-admin does not update time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400130 You received this bug

[Bug 25947] Re: [users-admin] should warn the user of what he's doing when unselecting the administration group

2009-12-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I've no personal problem with that, but if we don't respect what we write on the Wiki, we may as well change it instead of using inconsistent statuses. Don't worry about the wrong upstream status for that, I always go over all bugs registered in the GNOME System Tools Launchpad project (i.e. for

[Bug 497441] Re: gnome-system-tools 2.29.1-0ubuntu1 is causing all of gnome in Mythbuntu builds

2009-12-16 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
That's tightly related to bug 484559. If you don't mind losing the improvement brought by fixing bug 307019, I think you can commit the debdiff that is available on the former. Anyway the goal is to get rid of this hack and do all the work right by ourselves, i.e. without dependencies. --

[Bug 25947] Re: [users-admin] should warn the user of what he's doing when unselecting the administration group

2009-12-15 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
This is not committed in Ubuntu. It's committed upstream, waiting for a release upstream (2.29.2) to be committed on Ubuntu's Baazar repository, and then released in Lucid. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thanks for helping, though! ;-) ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)

[Bug 214622] Re: Can not change username in users-admin

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I think we could add this option to the new Advanced Settings dialog, but we won't move home dir and other things: just rename the user in /etc/passwd. Not sure our architecture allows for this easily. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- Can not

[Bug 207804] Re: users-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp(), and then on next run failed to add groups or users

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Any trace of this bug in Karmic (or at least Jaunty)? I really can't afford going through our code in Hardy to check where this was coming from, we have already enough bugs to tackle in recent versions. The trace upstream is too old, I'll have to close the report there without more information.

[Bug 235291] Re: user admin privileges have disappeared unexpectedly

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Sorry, it's been a long time since you reported this bug. Sadly, we need more information to work on it. The chances are low we can actually do anything about it, since it's kind of late to get the details... :-( First, did it happen after you had changed user settings via

[Bug 188757] Re: shows root user in users-admin

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Development version upstream has a GConf option to show root, which means its hidden by default. ** Also affects: gst Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: gst Status: New = Fix Committed ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged

[Bug 335475] Re: not work disabled features: Mount user-space fileystems(FUSE)Automaticy get access in external disks data

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for your report. Could you report each problem separately? There's absolutely no chance that a developer will try to fix all those bugs at once, you're discouraging people from reading your report. And feature requests such as please write a GUI for XXX are completely useless: we know this

[Bug 313990] Re: [users-admin] adding new user sets groups to nogroup

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for your report. I'm not able to reproduce your problem. Can you confirm it still exists in Karmic? Thanks! ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- [users-admin] adding new

[Bug 339164] Re: [users-admin] default groups for new user

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
That's a problem with the installer that does not add the user to all the privilege groups used in Ubuntu. Have a look at /etc/gnome-system- tools/profiles for a list of them. ** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) = user-setup (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: user-setup (Ubuntu) Importance:

[Bug 223575] Re: Network manager deletes eth1 default gw when eth0 has Static IP

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) = network-manager (Ubuntu) -- Network manager deletes eth1 default gw when eth0 has Static IP https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 247951] Re: [intrepid][gnome-language-support] problem with icon

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Fixed in Karmic AFAICS. ** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) = language-selector (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- [intrepid][gnome-language-support]

[Bug 261289] Re: Preferences option to prevent auto mounting of removable hard disks has been removed

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for your report. I think the problem you describe is an intended feature: developers upstream have considered this option was not useful for enough users, and it makes our control center more complex for everyone. Though, you can start 'gconf-editor' and tune the key

[Bug 222330] Re: Bug in human-theme_0.18_all.deb prevents upgrade

2009-12-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) = human-theme (Ubuntu) -- Bug in human-theme_0.18_all.deb prevents upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222330 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in

[Bug 495496] Re: Proxy gets disabled if Use the same proxy for all protocols checkbox is unchecked

2009-12-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Oh, sorry, your problem wasn't clear to me. I'm not very familiar with gnome-network-properties, since it's not actually part of the gnome- system-tools, as you originally reported it (I know, it's confusing...). So the issue is that you are using different proxies for various protocols, the

[Bug 495496] Re: Proxy gets disabled if Use the same proxy for all protocols checkbox is unchecked

2009-12-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I'd avise you to report that upstream before you start working on it. It's possible that the problem is known, maybe even already fixed. Unfortunately, bugzilla.gnome.org is down for the week-end... Maybe it would be worth waiting monday - that's up to you. Else, sure, you can attach the patch

[Bug 495496] Re: Proxy gets disabled if Use the same proxy for all protocols checkbox is unchecked

2009-12-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for your report. I don't think the problem you describe is a bug, rather an intended feature. There's no Cancel button: you can't close it without applying the changes you've performed, because they are applied on the go. I don't see how this behavior could hurt anybody: you can always

[Bug 454256] Re: Unable to authenticate as user 'root' (I have added a password) OR as current user (account has no password due to end user preference)

2009-12-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 393854 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393854 David: what's your problem exactly? You can set up a password for root in Karmic too, it's just that PolicyKit won't allow you to enter the root password to authenticate. I fail to see how upgrading from

[Bug 475974] Re: [users-admin] Group Properties dialog sets GID to 0 on first launch

2009-12-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Development version 2.29.1 contains the fix for the GID is 0 on start problem, and also prevents you from choosing already used GIDs when creating/editing groups. ** Changed in: gst Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- [users-admin] Group Properties dialog sets GID to 0 on first

[Bug 475974] Re: [users-admin] Group Properties dialog sets GID to 0 on first launch

2009-12-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Hm, silly: the latter is actually not in 2.29.1, but will be in the next release. Anyway, that's for Lucid. -- [users-admin] Group Properties dialog sets GID to 0 on first launch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475974 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 349453] Re: users-admin pretends logged in users can be removed, while they aren't

2009-12-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
This is now fixed upstream. Since deluser does not remove active users, we simply refuse to delete them, showing a dialog: John Doe is currently using this computer. Please ensure the user has logged out before deleting this account. Feel free to suggest a better formulation if you find one...

[Bug 491434] Re: users-admin fakes adding groups with existing gid

2009-12-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
This is now fixed upstream, will be included in 2.29.2. ** Also affects: gst Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: gst Status: New = Fix Committed -- users-admin fakes adding groups with existing gid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491434 You received this bug

[Bug 437905] Re: System Administration Services (services-admin) missing (Karmic)

2009-12-09 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
That won't happen, as explained by Chris in the previous comment. It's far too late now, that will be for Lucid. -- System Administration Services (services-admin) missing (Karmic) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437905 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 303997] Re: problem with big uids in Users and Groups tool

2009-12-08 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Are people actually watching liboobs development?! ;-) I've tried using before, but I was getting strange results because when converting the constant value to signed int, something was going wrong and I was getting -GMAX_INT32. I've tried again with your solution, and that does not work

[Bug 492979] Re: Change current user password via System-Administration-Users and Groups does not work

2009-12-06 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 490093 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490093 Yeah, that was a little hard to find, but that's actually bug 490093, which was spotted recently. The problem is that we're starting another tool (about-me) to change the password, and that when you have

[Bug 315002] Re: Changing your password does not allow admin authentication before session is restarted

2009-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Hmm... Charlie, I did not notice your step: 3. enter sudo passwd expiry USER1 Is there a specific reason why you didn't use the standard 'passwd' command? Could you post the log when using it? Don't even use 'sudo passwd', as it doesn't work the same way. Does it work then? Anyway, the

[Bug 315002] Re: Changing your password does not allow admin authentication before session is restarted

2009-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
That doesn't work because you're passing the '-e' option, which means: mark the password for expiration to force the user changing it on next login. That operation requires admin rights. BUT please simply use 'passwd', without anything else. (This is the best way of changing passwords in the

[Bug 315002] Re: Changing your password does not allow admin authentication before session is restarted

2009-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
That's not a workaround, that's the normal procedure. Why would you use 'passwd -e' in the first place, if you want ot change your own password? The only bug I can see here is that PolicyKit should allow users to authenticate even if their password is marked for expiration until they log change

[Bug 315002] Re: Changing your password does not allow admin authentication before session is restarted

2009-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #25461 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25461 ** Also affects: policykit via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25461 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Changing your password does not allow admin

[Bug 303997] Re: problem with big uids in Users and Groups tool

2009-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
OK, I've just committed a fix that allows IDs to be handled correctly as long as they don't go beyond G_MAXINT32 when the system supports it, which means on Ubuntu you can go up to 2,147,483,647. I guess that's enough for most people, but I'll see if we can guarantee we support the full range for

[Bug 307019] Re: ecryptfs Private directory not mounted after changing password in users-admin

2009-12-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- ecryptfs Private directory not mounted after changing password in users-admin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307019 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 315002] Re: Changing your password does not take effect before session is restarted

2009-12-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Please don't bother installing Jaunty - if that's failing in Karmic, that's enough for me. So to sum up, it seems that both PolicyKit and gksu authentications fail. Does a simple sudo echo test works? I guess not, but I'd like to be sure. A log that you could also post here is /var/log/auth.log

[Bug 488187] Re: No easy way to make passwordless account

2009-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #602110 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602110 ** Also affects: gst via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602110 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- No easy way to make passwordless account

[Bug 488187] Re: No easy way to make passwordless account

2009-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for the report, I agree the present situation is not optimal. But don' t believe we wan't to fix this because password-less accounts are unsecure, and we don't want to encourage users to work as in Windows. If you want to perform administrative tasks, having a password is essential. OTOH,

[Bug 393854] Re: Update PAM policy to allow password-less logins set up via users-admin

2009-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- Update PAM policy to allow password-less logins set up via users-admin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393854 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in

[Bug 315002] Re: Changing your password does not take effect before session is restarted

2009-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
So thanks for providing the details now. This bug was not Triaged, it was merely Confirmed. Sure, you had in mind the details, but nobody else did. So, what was not mentioned in the report or the comments is: changing your password does not allow you to authenticate via sudo. You're really not

[Bug 418337] Re: Administer the system for new user requires reboot

2009-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 315002 Changing your password does not take effect before session is restarted -- Administer the system for new user requires reboot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/418337 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 418337] Re: Administer the system for new user requires reboot

2009-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Sorry, it was not clear to me whether your report was a duplicate or not, partly because I didn't have much information about the other report. So yours is about the fact that new administrator users cannot authenticate until the computer is rebooted. That may well come from the same problem as

[Bug 315002] Re: Changing your password does not take effect before session is restarted

2009-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Do you have any idea of were this problem comes from? Are you able to reproduce it in Karmic? I'm not able to reproduce the problem here, so I'd need somebody to answer these questions. In particular, whether this also happens when changing password using 'passwd', rather than using users-admin.

[Bug 303997] Re: problem with big uids in Users and Groups tool

2009-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Again... Tricky issue. Considering the precise bug you found, it comes from the fact that the max [GU]ID was statically defined as 65,535. I'll fix that easily, but I lack a generic way of detecting the actual system maximum for gid_t. I guess I've found a hack that will work, though. That will be

[Bug 315002] Re: Changing your password does not take effect before session is restarted

2009-12-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Yeah, that's bug 484559. But does changing your password from the console using 'passwd' bring the same bug as the present report describes? If that's the case, that's a bug in PAM or sudo, and we should move it if we want it to be fixed some day. -- Changing your password does not take effect

[Bug 490694] Re: shares-admin crashes on start when udev has been restarted without reboot

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Sadly gdb doesn't seem to find the source file, which does not allow us to get details about the crash. From what I see in the code, we could crash if libhal returns an array without telling us its real size. We could check that the code in libhal is not buggy in that regard, but anyway HAL is now

[Bug 490694] Re: shares-admin crashes on start when udev has been restarted without reboot

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
OK, I've finally found http://bugs.gentoo.org/278760 which explains that libhal returns NULL when no devices are found, not even setting the number of devices to 0. So we should check that before trying to add them to our internal list. I don't know why shares-admin needs the list of network

[Bug 490694] Re: shares-admin crashes on start when udev has been restarted without reboot

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Here's a patch that you can apply against the liboobs package if you want to check that it works. It seems to work here, but I never get the crash, even if the error was set. ** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) = liboobs (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: liboobs (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged

[Bug 491434] Re: users-admin fakes adding groups with existing gid

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Yeah, that's already been spotted several times. See bug 475974 for the GID = 0 issue. I'll fix that for the next release. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged -- users-admin fakes

[Bug 475974] Re: [users-admin] Group Properties dialog sets GID to 0 on first launch

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- [users-admin] Group Properties dialog sets GID to 0 on first launch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475974 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 4738] Re: user privileges affecting adduser component and sudoers

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Closing because of lack of information. I'll try to make this kind of bug impossible in the next release by redesigning the way we commit changes to the system, so this should disappear anyway. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- user privileges

[Bug 315002] Re: Changing your password does not take effect before session is restarted

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
wierdlmate: You're not the original reporter, are you? The problem you describe seems to be linked with bug 490093. Please comment on that bug, not here - are you able to change your password from the console using 'passwd'? Closing this report by lack of feedback since august. Please reopen if

[Bug 490093] Re: Cannot change password with users-admin (gnome-system-tools)

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
About the hang problem: do you get the hang even when the new password is completely different from the old one? I thought we were always using strong encryption methods that did not have the problem you describe (which occurred when using 3DES). ** Summary changed: - Cannot change password with

[Bug 315002] Re: Changing your password does not take effect before session is restarted

2009-12-02 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Charlie Kravetz: You said you were able to reproduce the bug. Could you give me details on that? I can keep it open indefinitely, but that won't help, while cluttering my TODO list. I don't think your policy is to keep reports open disregarding the fact that we can't reproduce them. There have

[Bug 490694] Re: shares-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_create_instance()

2009-12-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks for your report. I'd need more debugging to find the precise line that triggers the crash, since the stacktrace seems to have changed the line numbers a bit. Could you install debug package from [1] and run shared-admin in gdb? The procedure is: gdb shares-admin [crash] ba q And then

[Bug 490694] Re: shares-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_create_instance()

2009-12-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Ah, from your description I thought was occurring all the time. So I'm forced to close the report, since the stacktrace we have is very strange: the reported line is not in the function it's said to be, and I am to believe the line number, I can't really find what could have lead to a crash, apart

[Bug 490694] Re: shares-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_create_instance()

2009-12-01 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Interesting! Could you simply try the steps I described in my first comment? We must find out what's going on before reporting this against HAL. I may well be that liboobs is doing something bad here. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Incomplete ** Summary

[Bug 490093] Re: Cannot change password with users-admin (gnome-system-tools)

2009-11-30 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Now I can see what's the problem. You shouln't have to authenticate when closing the first dialog. If it does so, that's because it wants to commit your user configuration - and since there are two separate programs here, the first one (users-admin) overwrites the changes that were made since it

[Bug 488913] Re: users-admin profiles default to force [GU]ID, home dir, shell and groups to adduser

2009-11-29 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Yeah, that's not completely trivial, that's why I don't say you: OK, I'll fix that in two hours for the next release. I'm not sure I'll have the time to try implementing this for Lucid. perl is not very hard to understand when you have priori knowledge of C or another similar language. You'd need

[Bug 463353] Re: [users-admin] Modifying user has no effect

2009-11-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thales MG: If it's *your* password that you can't change, then the problem is not the really in the gnome-system-tools, since they start the About Me program to do that. Could you try to change your password using that program (from System-Preferences), and if that fails report a bug against that

[Bug 488913] Re: users-admin profiles default to force [GU]ID, home dir, shell and groups to adduser

2009-11-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Do you think you could try to implement the support for adduser profiles in the system-tools-backends? I'm currently reworking the D-Bus protocol, so it would be the time to make these changes if we want. They are written in perl. -- users-admin profiles default to force [GU]ID, home dir, shell

[Bug 253103] Re: users not belonging to users group

2009-11-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I fail to see why it would be a problem with the gst. Wouldn't a line in /etc/adduser.conf be enough? Even if we handle profiles manually, that won't prevent new users from being added to the users group if adduser wants to. ** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) = adduser (Ubuntu) **

[Bug 488158] Re: users-admin should leave adduser handle main group creation

2009-11-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Sure, that would make sense. But that's not really high priority to me, as most people won't tweak the group settings without knowing how this works. Maybe one day... -- users-admin should leave adduser handle main group creation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488158 You received this bug

[Bug 477324] Re: Fix sort order in Group Settings.

2009-11-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low -- Fix sort order in Group Settings. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477324 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 463353] Re: [users-admin] Modifying user has no effect

2009-11-28 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Could you open a new report against the gnome-system-tools? I'd like to investigate this further. -- [users-admin] Modifying user has no effect https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463353 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 488158] Re: users-admin not following Debian policy

2009-11-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
How funny: you linked the wiki spec to the blueprint I had written a few years ago, without knowing how to implement it precisely. The information from the wiki page would be nice to show from users- admin's help, but 1) our help is pretty outdated now, we should rewrite it from scratch using

[Bug 488158] Re: users-admin should leave adduser handle main group creation

2009-11-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Actually, now that I think of it, we can't avoid forcing the UID because we implement user profiles in users-admin. Those allow the distribution/admin to present users with typical account types, which set sensible default values for home dir, shell, groups membership (esp. admin), and UID. It's

[Bug 488158] Re: users-admin should leave adduser handle main group creation

2009-11-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I'll use this bug to track the issue of not adding users to their main groups. I should be able to fix this soon. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- users-admin should leave adduser handle main group creation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488158

[Bug 488913] Re: users-admin defaults to override system wide defaults from /etc/login.defs, /adduser.conf

2009-11-26 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Maybe I should precise that [GU]ID ranges set in /etc/adduser.conf are still honored, it's only that users-admin chooses the ID itself in that range. So no real problem in that regard. We should just allow profiles not to be used if wanted. (About services form adduser.local.conf, they don't seem

[Bug 488158] Re: user/group: management not following policy

2009-11-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Funny way of reporting a bug... How can you suspect there's a problem if you don't know whether adduser/deluser are used? ;-) Can you explain the differences you've spotted with adduser? I'm aware of a few issues that we'd like to fix for the next release, namely that we set the password using

[Bug 180535] Re: network settings; utter uselessness thereof for PPPoE

2009-11-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Yeah, let's close it since no answer from the reported has happened in more than a year. Anyway, this would require a large rework that nobody will do. Moving to NetworkManager is the only solution. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- network

[Bug 488158] Re: users-admin not following Debian policy

2009-11-25 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Seriously, exactly as you write I was seeing the user being added to his primary private group. adduser tester produces this group entry: tester:x:1006: where users-admin produced: test:x:1005:test So I'm happy to find somebody knowing what we should do. I've reported bug 545714 [1] in

[Bug 288052] Re: /etc/resolv.conf inserts commas between Search Domains

2009-11-23 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Thanks. So that's a bug with dhclient, I hope somebody more aware of its behavior will be able to help. ** Package changed: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) = dhcp3 (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: dhcp3 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- /etc/resolv.conf inserts commas between Search Domains

[Bug 484559] Re: Xubuntu: Cannot change own password because users-admin needs gnome-about-me

2009-11-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
James: Hmm... For some reason I've received only now the mail with your above comment, which I've completely missed when posting and working on the patch. Anyway, AFAICS there's still a problem with depending on gnome-about-me: it's in the gnome-control-center package, which would pull in gnome-

[Bug 485641] Re: unable to find settings for modem conection

2009-11-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Rationale for SRU: this bug prevents people from setting up PPP connections. network-admin is not included on the default install, but it's really useful for users with traditional modems (not sure ModemManager works in every case). The fix has been committed upstream and only adds a

[Bug 485641] Re: unable to find settings for modem conection

2009-11-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
I got it: the combo box is always empty because there's no cell renderer in it. Quite astonishing that you're the first to report this problem! ;-) ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Low = High ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete =

[Bug 485641] Re: unable to find settings for modem conection

2009-11-22 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
And the fix is at 1: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-system-tools/commit/?id=ffac0be4b5f1636a03990b8dc4416ed792f20cc4 ** Summary changed: - unable to find settings for modem conection + [network-admin] Modem connection types not listed ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status:

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