GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 416619
show all users checkbox is gone and there is no way to view users with a UID of less than 1000
Last modified: 2007-05-21 18:10:28 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/bugs/70850 "The user-admin dialog in Edgy doesn't show the "show all users" checkbox anymore, and only the users with UID > 1000 are shown. I can see how this may be regarded as a "feature", simplifying the interface, but in some cases may be quite annoying. * test-case (my case): I'm adding a PC to a network with NFS shares; some users over the network have UIDs < 1000, and I need these UIDs to be preserved for NFS to work properly. When I change the pre-defined UIDs, those users are not listed anymore, and I have to edit their properties via console. * test-case 2: I'm just curious, or want to have a look to the complete list of users in a graphical fashion. users-admin was a good tool for that, when it was able to show all users. **WORKAROUND: sudo vi /etc/login.defs change UID_MIN to 1 this is not very clean, but I guess that if one needs to change automatically generated user-ids, he should also be able to take care not to assign "reserved" userids to normal users. ..."
According to the users-admin help docs: "Users list Shows the available users. depending on the gconf key "/apps/gnome-system-tools/users/show_all" it will show the system users too." I basically thought that just a slight minority would want to see system related users, and those ones would be perfectly capable of changing a gconf key, maybe I forgot that such users would never look in the help docs :P
I'm installed Feisty this past weekend and the "Show All Users and Groups" checkbox is not available. I agree with the documentation (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AddUsersHowto) this is how a user should be able to see all users and all groups. However the software (Feisty) does not agree with the documentation.
I just tripped across this, too. While I think it is silly to remove the "Show all users and groups" checkbox, I can accept that it is done. However, at least on Feisty, the admin tool for users and groups now lacks the checkbox AND apparently doesn't honor the gconf setting in /apps/gnome-system-tools/users/show_all (which I did see in the docs :). It sure *looks* like there is a bug.