indeed, when launched by a normal user, users-admin crashes and the terminal output says that this user was not allowed to send a dbus message. Sorry for the extra fear it gave me. I am still pretty sure to have launched it as a normal user a while ago, but this was either a separate (fixed) bug or some mis-remember on my part. I still dislike being able to launch it without sudo controlling (it is especially bad for people with custom sudo configuration, but they can work around it manually I guess). Anyway, if a member of the admin group is compromised, something bad can be done, it only makes things a bit easier.
Nice to have the UI running fully as non-priv user anyway! -- run action as root without prompting for a password https://launchpad.net/bugs/59946 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
