GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 308686
Edit groups for user properties
Last modified: 2009-12-13 20:49:47 UTC
Currently, when you look at the properties of a user, you cannot see or edit what groups they are in. It would be nice if another tab was added called "Groups" which would allow this Other information: from: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12074
I would agree with this.
that would mean to add again what I wanted to avoid when I removed that tab. Unless you have a somewhat complex configuration, the "privileges" tab handles the most common cases in a much more user friendly way, and it would also mean adding duplicate info in another tab (touching one would mean modifying data in the other, which goes against all usability premises). I'm very tempted to mark it as WONTFIX unless you have very good arguments :)
Ok, been thinking about this one. Basically I think we should show any user created groups. We can leave the various system groups as they are.
I need to add users to custom groups. This bug made me use the command line a lot. I appreciate a way to manage a user's group in gnome. Not beeing able to do this is not user friendly at all.
Use case: A user installs VirtualBox. Since the virtualbox driver has this rights: crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 10, 62 2008-08-16 09:15 /dev/vboxdrv You need to attach a user to the group vboxusers. This simple task is still not possible within the gnome gui.
Now that the GUI has been redesigned, I think it makes even less sense to add another tab/dialog to configure the groups the user is in. VirtualBox is considered as a privilege group ATM, and I think that fits your needs. If you need to add many users to a specific group, then I guess it's worth for you to create a dedicated profile, by tweaking /etc/gnome-system-tools/users/profiles. This file is now much more used in the development version, and it will soon be shipped in our tree (for now, distributors ship it on their own - at least Ubuntu).