My machine was a fresh Dapper Drake install. The users in question were all newly created ones. I created users, then created groups. Then I started adding users to groups. After I exited the admin tool and saved the changes I went to configure the printer and could not. I tracked it back to rights issues with root - sudo was failing also. I don't believe it happens in the command line user admin tools - I used those to undo the damage.
I recently tried v7.04 as a test drive and it had the same issue. On 7/16/07, Charles Twardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- 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 Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
