"users-admin is _dead_. So don't expect us to work on it anymore. File bugs against the new control center if there are."
You may consider it dead, but I am sitting here today, nearly a year later, trying to add users on Ubuntu 11.04 using Users Settings and having this very problem. Users Settings is still present on the Ubuntu System menu and this problem is still there. For a dead program it is having a busy afterlife. While it may satisfy you to enlighten the rest of us that this program should not be run as root, in the real world where the rest of us live I am sitting here with a frozen/grayed-out Users Settings dialog as described in the original post, and wasting my time Googling to find an answer as to why I cannot proceed. Asserting on an obscure forum that I am "doing it wrong" rather than fixing the problem by, at the very least, adding an informative error message as the original but reporter proposed, is not only not helpful, it is the opposite of helpful. Considering that Ubuntu brands itself as the easy-to-use Linux, that attitude borders on incomprehensible. And do I need to point out the Catch-22? You assert that I need to make users from a non-root account. How do I create that non-root account IF I CANNOT MAKE USERS FROM THE ROOT ACCOUNT USING A GUI-BASED PROGRAM THAT IS OBVIOUSLY THERE FOR THAT PURPOSE? While the answer may be obvious to you, there are others on earth to whom it is not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/685215 Title: users-admin hangs immediately when run as root To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/685215/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
