On 8.04 alpha-2, I tried to add a user. (I am the non-root user with administrative privileges created by the system installation.) The "Users and Groups" menu item appeared to allow me to add another user (in addition to existing users: myself and root). But when I listed /etc/passwd after closing the menu item, the added user was not there. I tried to 'gedit /etc/passwd'. I added the new user to the end of the file. But when I tried to save, an error message told me that I don't have privileges to do that. I then tried 'sudo gedit /etc/passwd', which asked for my password and allowed me to edit and save. Listing the /etc/passwd file with 'less' confirmed that the new user still was at the end of the file. Going back to look at users from the system menu item, now I found that the new user was listed among the users. I tried to delete that new user, which seemed to work. But when I checked /etc/passwd again, the user was still there. Apparently, even though I am shown to have the privilege to administer the system, that's not good enough to let me add or delete a user or change group membership, yet the menu item does not give any error message and seems to comply with my deletion or addition. Worse yet, I tried to change the root password so that I could login as root to see if root can do these things from the menu. The menu "Users and Groups" item appeared to let me change the root password, but that did not have any effect. When I tried to login as root using the new password, the password was rejected.
Therefore, I am editing the title of this bug report to say that the "administrative" user cannot administer users and groups from the system menu. ** Summary changed: - [7.10 8.04alpha-2 users groups] Can not remove a user and create a new one with the same username as the deleted one. No error message is presented. + [7.10 8.04alpha-2 users groups] Can not remove a user and create a new one with the same username as the deleted one. No error message is presented. (Administrative user cannot administer users and groups from System menu.) -- [7.10 8.04alpha-2 users groups] Can not remove a user and create a new one with the same username as the deleted one. No error message is presented. (Administrative user cannot administer users and groups from System menu.) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178621 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
