Sorry, I should have made clear I was speaking from an upstream (GNOME) point of view. I've not said Ubuntu wouldn't fix the problem (even if I know they won't). Ubuntu ships a version of users-admin that's more than a year old, so even if I fixed things upstream you wouldn't notice. My advice (to Ubuntu) is that they move to the new GNOME control center users applet.
As for the specific problem of running as root, AFAIK any newly installed system comes with a non-root admin account. And something I *did* fix in users-admin when it was still developed is that it will not allow you to remove the last admin account. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685215 Title: users-admin hangs immediately when run as root Status in “gnome-system-tools” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools When users-admin is run as root, whether by sudo, gksudo, or from a root shell (started with "sudo su"), it hangs. The "busy" mouse pointer (spinny wheel, with the default theme) is shown. The widgets in the window are drawn (though the users list is not populated), but faded out and unusable. It does not monopolize CPU resources in this state. SIGTERM kills it without incident. This is on a 64-bit Maverick system (with version 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 of gnome-system-tools). The output of "uname -a" on this system is: Linux Apok 2.6.35-23-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 11:55:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux When run as a non-root user, users-admin works without problems, including when performing tasks requiring it to elevate privileges to root while running (e.g. creating a user). And it works fine when a non-root user runs it as an alternate non-root user. I have also reproduced this bug on a 32-bit Maverick system, as well as a 32-bit Natty system (same gnome-system-tools package version). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: gnome-system-tools 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Dec 4 10:36:40 2010 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/users-admin InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 LANG=en_US.utf8 LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/685215/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
