[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1256585] Re: adduser does not update System Settings Accounts or the session login screen
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256585 Title: adduser does not update System Settings Accounts or the session login screen Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I added some new users to my freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04 system using adduser in a Terminal window -- something I've done successfully with 3 previous Ubuntu releases. Now everything is OK at the filesystem level (/etc/passwd, /home/*, etc.), but neither the System Settings Accounts GUI nor the initial login screen shows any of the new users. I did edit /etc/adduser.conf to limit the range of system user and group IDs to 0-199 rather than 0-999, because I'm going to be copying a /home hierarchy from an earlier release that used those values and all the user IDs I added are in the range 200-999, but unless the 0-999 range is hardwired into LightDM or AccountsService or some other new piece of system software, this shouldn't cause the users to be invisible. I've spent hours on this problem with no success. The system is unusable until I solve it, because none of the real users on the system can log in through the initial login screen, and there is no other way to create a session for a different user (sudo -l only affects the terminal window, not the desktop etc.). To reproduce the problem: * Start with a freshly installed 12.04 system, creating admin1 as the initial user. * Download and install all post-release patches. * Edit /etc/adduser.conf to change the system UID and GID boundary from 1000 to 200, and to set usergroups to no. * Open a Terminal window, and execute (for example) adduser --uid 602 ghost * Open the System Settings and select Accounts. The newly added user ghost will not appear. * Log out of the session. When the initial login screen appears, it will not offer ghost as a login name. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1256585/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1256585] Re: adduser does not update System Settings Accounts or the session login screen
I changed the Target to accountsservice since I think that's the most likely location of the bug. ** Package changed: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) = accountsservice (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256585 Title: adduser does not update System Settings Accounts or the session login screen Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I added some new users to my freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04 system using adduser in a Terminal window -- something I've done successfully with 3 previous Ubuntu releases. Now everything is OK at the filesystem level (/etc/passwd, /home/*, etc.), but neither the System Settings Accounts GUI nor the initial login screen shows any of the new users. I did edit /etc/adduser.conf to limit the range of system user and group IDs to 0-199 rather than 0-999, because I'm going to be copying a /home hierarchy from an earlier release that used those values and all the user IDs I added are in the range 200-999, but unless the 0-999 range is hardwired into LightDM or AccountsService or some other new piece of system software, this shouldn't cause the users to be invisible. I've spent hours on this problem with no success. The system is unusable until I solve it, because none of the real users on the system can log in through the initial login screen, and there is no other way to create a session for a different user (sudo -l only affects the terminal window, not the desktop etc.). To reproduce the problem: * Start with a freshly installed 12.04 system, creating admin1 as the initial user. * Download and install all post-release patches. * Edit /etc/adduser.conf to change the system UID and GID boundary from 1000 to 200, and to set usergroups to no. * Open a Terminal window, and execute (for example) adduser --uid 602 ghost * Open the System Settings and select Accounts. The newly added user ghost will not appear. * Log out of the session. When the initial login screen appears, it will not offer ghost as a login name. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1256585/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1256585] Re: adduser does not update System Settings Accounts or the session login screen
Launchpad incorrectly classified this bug as a gnome-terminal bug. It is not a gnome-terminal bug, but I don't know what subsystem it actually resides in (perhaps AccountServices or maybe LightDM). I'm somewhat familiar with Ubuntu's terminal-based world (the classic Unix world), but not at all with the GUI-based code. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256585 Title: adduser does not update System Settings Accounts or the session login screen Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I added some new users to my freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04 system using adduser in a Terminal window -- something I've done successfully with 3 previous Ubuntu releases. Now everything is OK at the filesystem level (/etc/passwd, /home/*, etc.), but neither the System Settings Accounts GUI nor the initial login screen shows any of the new users. I did edit /etc/adduser.conf to limit the range of system user and group IDs to 0-199 rather than 0-999, because I'm going to be copying a /home hierarchy from an earlier release that used those values and all the user IDs I added are in the range 200-999, but unless the 0-999 range is hardwired into LightDM or AccountsService or some other new piece of system software, this shouldn't cause the users to be invisible. I've spent hours on this problem with no success. The system is unusable until I solve it, because none of the real users on the system can log in through the initial login screen, and there is no other way to create a session for a different user (sudo -l only affects the terminal window, not the desktop etc.). To reproduce the problem: * Start with a freshly installed 12.04 system, creating admin1 as the initial user. * Download and install all post-release patches. * Edit /etc/adduser.conf to change the system UID and GID boundary from 1000 to 200, and to set usergroups to no. * Open a Terminal window, and execute (for example) adduser --uid 602 ghost * Open the System Settings and select Accounts. The newly added user ghost will not appear. * Log out of the session. When the initial login screen appears, it will not offer ghost as a login name. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1256585/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
