I was able to reproduce the steps above with a similar result. I took 10 seconds on each password entry attempt. The first two simply did not take, with no error message. The third attempt produced the error message.
** Summary changed: - users-admin tool fails to authenticate if you wait more than a few seconds to type your password + Users and Groups tool fails to authenticate. ** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools + + + The "Users and Groups" tools fails to authenticate if the password is not entered quickly. The tool is located at SYSTEM -> ADMINISTRATION -> Users and Groups choose the users and groups administration tool from the settings. click unlock. An authenticate window will come up. Don't type anything, just wait a few seconds. (About 8 seconds for me. If you type your password fast, the bug won't happen.) An error message window will appear under the authenticate window: "Could not authenticate, An unexpected error has occurred." The program now will not work properly (won't authenticate any user, so far as I can tell), unless you shut it down and try again. --- If you then do finish entering your password in the authenticate window, and close the error dialog, the program will not have authenticated you. Now clicking the unlock button anew just puts up the "Could not authenticate" dialog straight away, without running an authenticate window. You have to shut the program down and try it again. To get it to work, try running it again and just type your password fast. --- Ubuntu 9.04 -- Users and Groups tool fails to authenticate. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349361 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
