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Bug 529228 - Unable to create groups
Unable to create groups
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-system-tools
Classification: Deprecated
Component: users-admin
2.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Milan Bouchet-Valat
Carlos Garnacho
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-04-21 15:13 UTC by James Westby
Modified: 2009-07-26 20:27 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Attachments
A patch to get the chosen group name from the dialog (2.20 KB, patch)
2008-04-21 15:14 UTC, James Westby
committed Details | Review

Description James Westby 2008-04-21 15:13:33 UTC
It is currently not possible to create a group with users-admin.

Quoting from https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/205144

"""


I cannot add a group using "Users and Groups" from the system tools menu.

Steps to reproduce:

- Start "Users and Groups" from the menu.
- Unlock with the PolicyKit button
- Click Manage Groups
- Click Add Group
- Enter any group name. It does not matter if you select group members to be added to the new group from the list box.
- Click OK

Expected:
The group is added to the group list in the parent window.

Actual result:
An empty entry is appended to the list box.
- Clicking to see the details opens the previous window but with no group name in the input box.
- Clicking Delete asks if you are sure to delete group »(null)«.
"""

This is due to the chosen group name not being retrieved from the dialog.
Comment 1 James Westby 2008-04-21 15:14:48 UTC
Created attachment 109630 [details] [review]
A patch to get the chosen group name from the dialog

Here is the patch that I created to fix this problem.

Thanks,

James
Comment 2 Oxmosys 2008-11-23 03:33:08 UTC
Ubuntu is still using James Westby patch, but this bug is still not fixed in GST itself.
Comment 3 Andy Owen 2009-07-18 11:09:42 UTC
Patch looks good. Thanks James.
Comment 4 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2009-07-18 13:38:03 UTC
Andy: as the g-s-t are unmaintained, please commit that fix if you think it's good and you tested it. Feel free to do so with other bugs too!
Comment 5 Andy Owen 2009-07-18 13:48:20 UTC
Yeah, I'm working with Thomas Andersen at the moment to get gst maintained again. At the moment, I don't have any git/bugzilla powers, so I'm stuck just commenting about what I would do if I could :)
Comment 6 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2009-07-18 13:53:02 UTC
Great, so we are three on the boat now! Then please just assign the bugs to me, I'll commit the patches when I can (holidays for now...). 
Comment 7 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2009-07-26 20:27:59 UTC
And thanks for this one - obviously, we needed to include it... Pushed as 6a5cd519dfd9b95b419ab737c19bf87cd0c5124f.