I think I've gotten to the bottom of it. I was surprised to find that if i create a new user i can successfully change the home directory of that user but that I was unable to change my own home directory or that of another user who had a running process. This seems to be because usermod will refuse to do so, complaining that the user is logged in. That seems quite sensible so it seems that all that is missing is for the GUI to report the error to the user in a sensible fashion.
On 11 January 2010 20:21, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimi...@club.fr> wrote: > No news on that bug? > > -- > users-admin lies about changing home directory > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484501 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- users-admin lies about changing home directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484501 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
