It's actually dead since upstream archived the project several years
ago. XFCE should have took it up, or moved to another tool.
Anyway, you shouldn't need to run it as root.
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The initial report of this was nearly six years ago. If this program is
so "dead," I have to wonder why here in late Sep. 2016 on an up-to-date
Raspbian system this is still the default app run when Xfce users run
the "Users and Groups" item on the System main menu. I guess it's
either not as
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Assignee: (unassigned) = Simon Graber (simon-graber19-sg)
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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
Sorry, I should have made clear I was speaking from an upstream (GNOME)
point of view. I've not said Ubuntu wouldn't fix the problem (even if I
know they won't). Ubuntu ships a version of users-admin that's more than
a year old, so even if I fixed things upstream you wouldn't notice. My
advice (to
In most operating systems I worked on (and that includes a lot of
different Unix flavours), the most natural system administration account
used when one needs to create user accounts, is that of the system
admin. For some reason Linux does it the other way round: root cannot
do it and everybody
users-admin is _dead_. So don't expect us to work on it anymore. File
bugs against the new control center if there are.
And any OS that suggests you to run a graphical session as root is dumb.
There are hundreds of ways a GUI can create security holes. Creating an
admin account that isn't root
@alainpannetier
You have misunderstood. Non-administrators cannot create user accounts (nor can
they perform other administrative tasks). Being root is not the same thing as
being an administrator. And the security model you are misunderstanding does
not apply to Linux-based operating systems
If I submit a patch, would it be a problem to fix the issue by having
users-admin display a message like, Users Settings does not support
being run as root. Please run it as a non-root user, and it will
automatically acquire superuser privileges if necessary.?
My concern is that such a message
Of course, it would be slightly better to fix users-admin not working as
root, rather than showing an error message, just in case some very
special distributions or users need this. But I'd accept a patch showing
a dialog too if it's well written... I don't think translators will mind
- if you
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Title:
users-admin hangs immediately when run as root
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But this is not a bug. You shouldn't run users-admin as root, as you
don't need to, and it potentially creates security issues.
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Status: New = Won't Fix
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In that case, I would suggest that it is still a bug, but a different
one: When run as root, users-admin hangs instead of displaying a message
instructing the user as to how to use it properly (and then exiting).
In my opinion, the current behavior sends the message to the user that
it is
You could, but I can sear you nobody will ever work on this because 1)
nobody usually works on users-admin except myself, and 2) users-admin is
going to be replaced, so we're not really fixing this kind of detail.
Feel free to provide a patch though, but filing a bug would really waste
your
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