GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 658418
gnome-control-center provides no method of editing groups
Last modified: 2011-09-07 11:53:35 UTC
Gnome3's control center provides no method to change group settings. This is a regression from Gnome2, where the "Users and Groups" setting application allowed both user and group settings to be modified.
There was no "Users and Groups" application shipped by GNOME in GNOME 2. The lack of group settings is as designed. We use roles instead now (Administrator, Normal user, etc.).
Didn't Gnome2 ship an application called 'users-admin', or is that an Ubunutu add-on? It has a 'Manage Groups' button. If the concept of groups no longer exists, how does one edit roles in Gnome3?
(In reply to comment #2) > Didn't Gnome2 ship an application called 'users-admin', or is that an Ubunutu > add-on? It has a 'Manage Groups' button. It didn't. I don't know whether it's an Ubuntu add-on. > If the concept of groups no longer exists, how does one edit roles in Gnome3? "Account type".
By "Account Type", I assume you mean the user setting "Account Type"? What I was asking was how does one edit which permissions are assigned to each account type. I imagine it is not possible to do that by design?
They don't have permissions, instead you'd be using PolicyKit roles. See for example: http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org/msg00172.html It's up to your distribution to set those up (other distributions don't use group membership as a way to access features or hardware).
Thanks for the info.