On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:35:12 -0000
Brian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better.  I've looked around for the users-admin package to which you
> refer but I have been unable to find it.  Could you provide some
> additional information about that package?  Thanks in advance.

It is not a package. Just the standard applet in gnome for managing
users. From my gnome panel it is in the menu:

System -> Administration -> Users and Groups

I felt a bit guilty after I submitted the bug for not doing any more
testing. I felt that I had jumped to conclusions. But thinking back
something bad must have happened because I had "Users and Groups" open
when I installed sshd, because the privilege separation user was
definitely missing after I installed sshd.

For me it looked like one of the two applications I had open (the sshd
install and "Users and Groups") was editing /etc/passwd and /etc/group
directly rather than using the API's. Using usermod, etc would reduce
the chance of contention.

Please let me know if I can help out with this in any way.

Regards,
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