Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
On Karmic, when using the graphical tool (users-admin) to create a new
group, the GID that's proposed is 0, instead of the first available GID
(usually 1001 or higher). Therefore, all users who are tagged to be part
of this group, actually become part of the 'root' group if the user
doesn't change the GID manually.
This used to work correctly in previous Ubuntu versions.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open System -> Administration -> Users and Groups
The 'Users Settings' screen appears.
2. Click on the 'keys'-button to allow changes and enter your password
3. Click on 'Manage Groups'
4. Click on 'Add Group'
The 'New group' screen appears.
5. Notice the predefined Group ID (GID) is set to '0'. As stated above, if the
user doesn't change the GID manually (which was done automagically in previous
Ubuntu versions), but does tag users to be Group Members, the new group isn't
created as soon as the user clicks 'OK', but the tagged users ARE in fact added
to group 0, which is root. Needless to say, this may have serious consequences
for system security. I haven't tagged this bug as such yet, but perhaps it
should be.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 21 02:30:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:1802): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(gnome-settings-daemon:1802): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1922): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(nautilus:1902): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
`preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(gnome-appearance-properties:2948): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_sync:
assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
** Affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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[regression] Wrong GID is proposed when creating a group using users-admin
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486130
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