** Branch linked: lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-system-tools/ubuntu
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Xubuntu: Cannot change own password because users-admin needs gnome-about-me
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This bug was fixed in the package gnome-system-tools - 2.29.1-0ubuntu2
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gnome-system-tools (2.29.1-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low
* debian/patches/85_user_gnome_about_me_for_password.patch:
- Updated to fall-back to using system-tools-backends to change
active users
If it's just for reviewing purposes, the only changes I added are in:
about_me_path = g_find_program_in_path (gnome-about-me);
show_passwd = (user != oobs_self_config_get_user
(OOBS_SELF_CONFIG
(GST_USERS_TOOL
lowering settings since that's not something impacting on default ubuntu
install and it's easy to workaround
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: High = Low
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Xubuntu: Cannot change own password
the gnome-control-center capplets will not be shipped in different
binaries, user-admin should probably fallback in cases where the capplet
is not installed...
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance:
Milan: Can you update your patch so that it only shows the change you're
proposing instead of being an updated version of the original patch? ie.
Instead of being an update of the original patch, just provide a patch
as if the original patch was already applied against the source tree
before
On Wed Nov 18 11:37:47 UTC 2009 Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
Ouch! Indeed, that was a side-effect of our recent patch that was not
expected. The rationale for running gnome-about-me was that its way of
changing your password allowed eCryptfs Private directory to be mounted
with the new password:
James: Hmm... For some reason I've received only now the mail with your
above comment, which I've completely missed when posting and working on
the patch.
Anyway, AFAICS there's still a problem with depending on gnome-about-me:
it's in the gnome-control-center package, which would pull in gnome-
Here's an updated version of Jame's original patch, which used
g_find_program_in_path() to check that gnome-about-me is present. If
that's not the case, the normal password entries are shown, just like we
do for other users than the current one. The patch was written in such a
way that updating it
Proposal for SRU: either install gnome-about-me on Xubuntu, which will
require splitting it from the gnome-control-center package, or update
the Ubuntu patch to users-admin so that it checks that gnome-about-me is
present before hiding the original password fields. What way sounds the
best to you?
Ouch! Indeed, that was a side-effect of our recent patch that was not
expected. The rationale for running gnome-about-me was that its way of
changing your password allowed eCryptfs Private directory to be mounted
with the new password: see bug 307019. Maybe the best solution for now
would be to
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** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35807933/Dependencies.txt
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Xubuntu: Cannot change own password because users-admin needs gnome-about-me
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