So your system isn't broken, it's just that adduser doesn't interact well with automount. I'm not sure why this doesn't work (i.e. why /home isn't mounted when adduser tries to access it), nor if it should work. But that's not a bug in users-admin. You could report a bug against adduser in Debian (which develops it), but I don't understand why adduser would need to be aware of the fact that /home is an automount point: are they supposed to be transparent to applications?
Ideally we should report the error in the dialog, but as I said that wouldn't be easy, and as users-admin are deprecated, we'd better spend our time improving the new tools that will be used in new releases. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/666555 Title: "users and groups" home directory change does not "take" -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs