Likewise, most of the reports did very simple things. I tried to add a new user. (However, it's also likely that a defunct user of the same name was in /etc/group or /etc/passwd because once upon a time those had been copied from another machine.)
But it stands to reason that it doesn't happen all the time, or developers would have noticed that they lost sudo. Anyone have a fresh spare machine they can experiment on? Does this happen from a fresh install? If there's extraneous entries in the files? If you mix adduser and users-admin? Or useradd? I'd rather not muck around with my work system, as I'm not convinced I've localized the damage. My office might be able to dig an old machine out of storage, but I'm swamped for the next week at least. -Charles Twardy On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Green wrote: DG>Hmm.... Well it has been a while since I looked at it but all I did to DG>create the bug was use the GUI user-admin too to reassign a user to a DG>group. I noticed after that that directories the users should have had DG>access to they did not. Further investigation showed that they were not in DG>the groups I'd put them in and I had to reset root's password to be able to DG>run sudo to fix things. -- Charles R. Twardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26338 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
