** Changed in: gst
Status: New = Won't Fix
** Changed in: gst
Importance: Unknown = Wishlist
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[users-admin] Edit groups for user properties
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18351
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Sure, that can be useful, and that could even replace the Manage Groups
button - but since that's too late for Lucid and that I don't plan
writing it (for now at least), you may find the user profiles feature
quite convenient.
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[users-admin] Edit groups for user properties
James: Then, please have a look at your /etc/gnome-system-tools/user-
profiles.conf. You can create account types there, notably specifying
what groups the user should be in (in Lucid only). You can also change
the default account type to avoid the need to edit membership manually
after creating
Interesting.
That'd probably do the job for most cases, yeah. Still, it's not every
time where the group list is identical.
If you look at Windows, they do this same thing with 'Administrator',
'User', etc. but there's also for sysadmins
a tool to edit the user's groups (in Computer Management),
People often play with groups. Suppose someone just got a job, then
they would be in an employee group, a secretary group, blah blah. In
my case it's that I am setting up various servers on a machine. It's
the same as for the User Permissions, just things that people have
customized themselves.
Any time one is setting up a new user, they want to add the groups for
them. Having to go through two screens is a lot more clicks.
I can't see any reason why if the ability already exists for
privileges, there can't be a Groups tab.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat
Why would you want to set up groups right after creating an user? The
tool is designed to avoid you this painful process, by choosing the
default profile. You may need to change profile for an Administrator,
but not more.
There can obviously be a group tab, and that's not too complex, but I
don't
Yes, this needs to exist.
One benefit we have is that Debian uses usergroups, so groups of a
particular user could be available just as a list, and then an
'Advanced' rollout that would be hidden by default (_unless_ the user's
group is not of the same name) which would talk about primary group.
Do you have a precise use case for that? Most groups should be covered
by privileges, and we can add new ones if needed. Sorting groups by
alphabetical order is also planned, that should reduce the need for a
per-user list that I'm not sure anybody will ever implement.
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The current workaround is:
1. In users-admin, click Manage Groups
2. Select the desired group, and click Properties
3. Check the box next to the user name you want to add to the group
There's still another problem, though: even Manage Groups doesn't list
all of the group names on the system.
Use case: A user installs VirtualBox. Since the virtualbox driver has this
rights:
crw-rw 1 root vboxusers 10, 62 2008-08-16 09:15 /dev/vboxdrv
You need to attach a user to the group vboxusers.
This simple task is still not possible within the gnome gui.
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nothing happening :-(
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