I think I've gotten to the bottom of it. I was surprised to find that
if i create a new user i can successfully change the home directory of
that user but that I was unable to change my own home directory or
that of another user who had a running process. This seems to be
because usermod will
I see. The backends are not really good at reporting errors to the GUI,
but we should simply block changing home dir for active users.
** Summary changed:
- users-admin lies about changing home directory
+ users-admin lies about changing home directory for active users
** Changed in:
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released = Triaged
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 463353 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463353
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 463353
[users-admin] Modifying user has no effect
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 463353 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463353
Sorry, this bug is not a duplicate of the cited bug. I just tried it in
on fully updated karmic system and changing a user's home directory has
no effect at all. Try it for yourself if you don't believe me!
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 463353 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463353
P.S. I agree that setting the home directory to an existing directory is
a dangerous thing to do and should not be done without a warning and a
great deal of care. I could completely understand if you choose
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 463353 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463353
P.P.S. Yes I am able to make other changes: I changed my real name
successfully, for example.
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Thanks for the reply. I'm not able to reproduce the problem on my
computer. Could you check that the command sudo usermod -d [PATH TO
HOMEDIR] [USER LOGIN] works? If it does please follow the instructions
for the too users-admin at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnomeSystemTools.
** This bug is
Thanks for the report. Are you able to modify any settings at all? Is
your system up-to-date? I reckon this is a duplicate of bug 463353,
which has been fixed recently.
About reusing an already existing home directory: you know what you're
doing, but the program has to make sure 1) the directory
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