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Bug 488859 - "Users and Groups" is not aware of changes to passwd done by other apps during runtime
"Users and Groups" is not aware of changes to passwd done by other apps durin...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-system-tools
Classification: Deprecated
Component: users-admin
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Carlos Garnacho
Carlos Garnacho
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-21 22:36 UTC by Yann Rouillard
Modified: 2007-12-12 00:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Yann Rouillard 2007-10-21 22:36:09 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
"Users and Groups" only retrieves the user/group configuration at startup. 
If some modifications are made while "User and Groups" is running (via adduser or a package installation which add a user/group), "Users and Groups" will not catch them and so will remove these changes if you then add a user or a group using it. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. launch users-admin
2. useradd test1
3. create the test2 user in users-admin


Actual results:
The test1 user has been removed from /etc/passwd

Expected results:
The test1 user should not be removed

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Yann Rouillard 2007-10-21 22:37:14 UTC 
That bug has been opened on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-tools-backends/+bug/115957
Comment 2 Carlos Garnacho 2007-12-12 00:28:07 UTC 
All necessary changes to fix this have been committed to s-t-b head and g-s-t trunk, thanks for the bug report!