That's not a regression. In the worst case, nothing changes. But I
suspect for some reason Charlie isn't using the version with the fix,
since he also said bug 533870 wasn't fixed. What's your version number
of system-tools-backends?
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This bug was fixed in the package system-tools-backends -
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* debian/patches/03-lp616682.patch: backport fixes from 2.10.0 to fix
various issues (LP: #616682):
- Fix crash on
Any testers of the lucid-proposed package? As this has been in -proposed
for a long time already, I'll remove the proposed package soon if there
is no feedback. Thank you!
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Title:
[users-admin] Changing UID
Attempts to verify this fix in -proposed failed using Xubuntu Lucid
10.04, fully updated before enabling -proposed. Both before and after
enabling proposed, I added a user, and restarted. I then went to System
- Users and Groups - Advanced Settings, Advanced tab. I then changed
the User ID to 975.
I have successfully verified the update in -proposed. With lucid VM and
all updates, changing the UID of a user to 999 didn't update
/etc/passwd. After installing the update in -proposed, I could
successfully change it to 999, at which point the user wasn't available
in the GUI anymore.
@Charlie:
Charlie, thanks for testing! Would you say that from your perspective
this is a regression in any way? If not, we could still release it, as
it at least fixes the problem for a part of the users?
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here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for
documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!
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Title:
[users-admin] Changing UID doesn't work
** Also affects: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: New = Fix Committed
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I find this bug was fixed on 23/4/2010, but I have just been bitten again on
26/11/2010 using a fully updated Lucid LTS.
I know I can work round this using the command line, but ...
I need educating on the process by which bugs are fed back and fixed in Ubuntu
releases, especially in LTS
Richard: It's fixed in Maverick, but still present in Lucid. See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs, and especially
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status.
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2.10.0 has been uploaded to Maverick, waiting for a backport to Lucid.
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Status: Triaged = Fix Released
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You don't really need to create a user with a specific UID as long as
changing it's UID right after creation does the right thing. So what we
need is to chown the home directory when changing UID for a user. I
won't allow choosing UID on user creation since that would bring back
the bloat for most
No need for this workaround - you'd better edit /etc/passwd and
/etc/group directly. For the proper fix, we just need to package system-
tools-backends 2.10 to Lucid.
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Hmm. That isn't the only thing, is it?
I guess at least one would need to:
# chown -R user: /home/user
(or perhaps
# chown -R user:user /home/user
)
after the user ID and groupID have been edited. Do we agree on that?
Anything else?
Peter
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Let's be clear: the fix is known upstream for ages, see my comment #2
above. So no need to discuss it again, you just have to find somebody
willing to upload the version to Lucid.
The question of whether we should chown the home directory is another
problem, which could be easily solved using the
In order to be clear:
Bug #553746 Cannot Change User and Group ID is marked as a duplicate
of this one (by Milan, btw), Which is why I'm commenting here.
In the original text for that that bug, it says:
Furthermore, adding a new user gives you no opportunity to set the User ID.
And that is
Damn, a typo. Make that:
sudo find / -o -uid $olduid -print0 | sudo xargs -0 chown $newuid
sudo find / -o -gid $oldgid -print0 | sudo xargs -0 chgrp $newgid
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Temporary workaround:
As suggested by Milan Bouchet-Valat in bug #553746:
Note if you really need a specific profile for some users, have a look at
/etc/gnome-system-tools/user-profiles.conf, where you can add MinUID and
MaxUID options.
I needed a user with a UID of 1248 and this is what I
Will the bug be solved in Lucid? It is still there, since it is still
package version 2.9.4 of the system-tools-backend.
Thanks, Simon
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Will g-s-t also adjust the ownership of files in the filesystem upon
changing a user's ID, or would that be a different issue?
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Is gst using usermod? Its manpage says:
-u The ownership of files outside of the users home directory must be
fixed manually.
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No, changing files' UID would be a different bug. There's support in the
backends for changing UID of the home directory, but that's not used ATM
(will be easy to fix for the next release). But for files outside of the
directory, there's no support in the backends ATM. That's kind of a
corner
Fixed with 2.10.0, not yet in Lucid though.
** Changed in: system-tools-backends
Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released
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Much thanks for the report. This was indeed a mistake : we were
identifying users using their UID instead of their login. When changing
their UID, we weren't able to find the user to apply the new settings
to. It's now fixed upstream and will be available in the system-tools-
backends 2.10.0, for
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