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Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
When I started users-admin, the list was empty. I didn't know that this
was not normal, so I unlocked the program, added an user and clicked on
OK. The result was quite disastrous since /etc/passwd only had the new
user. I needed to reinstall Ubuntu (and so all logs are lost, sorry). I
think this can be hard to reproduce, but there should be a protection
against that (in particulary, the presence of root should be checked
before the file is written) to avoid such loss.
A related issue is that the rescue mode don't work in this case (it ask
a root passwd) but I'm not even sure this is a bug
(See also lp:187147)
** Affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
Status: Confirmed
** Tags: likely-dup
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[users-admin] [HARDY] erasing /etc/passwd and /etc/groups when failing to load
configuration
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234473
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