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Title: Changing users randomly affects other users and group memberships Status in The Gnome System Tools: Fix Released Status in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “gnome-system-tools” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in The Dapper Drake: Invalid Status in “gnome-system-tools” source package in Dapper: Invalid Status in The Edgy Eft: Invalid Status in “gnome-system-tools” source package in Edgy: Fix Released Status in The Feisty Fawn: Invalid Status in “gnome-system-tools” source package in Feisty: Fix Released Status in The Gutsy Gibbon: Invalid Status in “gnome-system-tools” source package in Gutsy: Fix Released Status in The Hardy Heron: Invalid Status in “gnome-system-tools” source package in Hardy: Fix Released Bug description: Impact: gnome-system-tools does not keep its internal model of users and groups consistent with the real world in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group. This leads to errors like deleting a different user than the one you chose in the UI, dropping unrelated users from groups like admin (thus making the system inaccessible for administration), and similar effects. Fix: Update the internal world model with each operation, done in http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-system-tools?view=revision&revision=4017. This needs some serious backporting for Feisty and earlier, I suppose; it should apply well to Gutsy. Regression potential: The bug could not be fixed fully, there might be more places which need update calls. Potentially the patch could mess up the pam db even more. TEST CASE: 1. launch users-admin 2. create a test1 user 3. create a test2 user (with admin rights) 4. create a test3 user 5. delete the test1 user 6. delete the test3 user This will either cause test2 to not be in group admin any more, or be deleted in step 6 instead of user test3. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gst/+bug/26338/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
