Rationale for SRU: discussed with Chris Coulson on IRC, since the patch
is only one line, it's worth backporting to Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic.
Intrepid is too close to end of life. This bug destroys the system from
the point of view of most users, since it completely prevents from
logging in. The origin of the additional ':' is not identified, but this
seems to have affected a significant number of people (see Ubuntu
forums).

Patch doesn't bring a large risk, since it simply limits the number of fields 
we read from a line to the expected number, forcing everything else to be 
considered as usernames, which is harmless in case it's not correct. See
http://git.gnome.org/browse/system-tools-backends-clone/commit/?id=5bad3f88f5e28fd9c1b62e1da6ff062d520ccc61

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users-admin (System->Administration->Users and Groups) overwrites group file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160862
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