Re: [Bug 484501] Re: users-admin lies about changing home directory
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
[Bug 484501] Re: users-admin lies about changing home directory for active users
I see. The backends are not really good at reporting errors to the GUI, but we should simply block changing home dir for active users. ** Summary changed: - users-admin lies about changing home directory + users-admin lies about changing home directory for active users ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Released ** Also affects: gst Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: gst Status: New = Confirmed -- users-admin lies about changing home directory for active users 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
[Bug 484501] Re: users-admin lies about changing home directory for active users
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released = Triaged -- users-admin lies about changing home directory for active users 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
[Bug 484501] Re: users-admin lies about changing home directory
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 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
[Bug 484501] Re: users-admin lies about changing home directory
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 463353 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463353 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 463353 [users-admin] Modifying user has no effect -- 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
[Bug 484501] Re: users-admin lies about changing home directory
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 463353 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463353 Sorry, this bug is not a duplicate of the cited bug. I just tried it in on fully updated karmic system and changing a user's home directory has no effect at all. Try it for yourself if you don't believe me! -- 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
[Bug 484501] Re: users-admin lies about changing home directory
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 463353 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463353 P.S. I agree that setting the home directory to an existing directory is a dangerous thing to do and should not be done without a warning and a great deal of care. I could completely understand if you choose not to support this for that reason. Appearing to change it without actually doing anything is misleading and clearly a bug though. Just disable the option! -- 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
[Bug 484501] Re: users-admin lies about changing home directory
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 463353 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463353 P.P.S. Yes I am able to make other changes: I changed my real name successfully, for example. -- 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
[Bug 484501] Re: users-admin lies about changing home directory
Thanks for the reply. I'm not able to reproduce the problem on my computer. Could you check that the command sudo usermod -d [PATH TO HOMEDIR] [USER LOGIN] works? If it does please follow the instructions for the too users-admin at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnomeSystemTools. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 463353 [users-admin] Modifying user has no effect ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low -- 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
[Bug 484501] Re: users-admin lies about changing home directory
Thanks for the report. Are you able to modify any settings at all? Is your system up-to-date? I reckon this is a duplicate of bug 463353, which has been fixed recently. About reusing an already existing home directory: you know what you're doing, but the program has to make sure 1) the directory is owned by the new user, and 2) if we change the permissions so that's the case, we don't break the home directory of another user, in case it's shared - and then, what to do? I'd like to get this fixed in the next release, but that's not so simple, as you can see. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- 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
