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Bug 674429 - a logout is required to actually make an account an admin
a logout is required to actually make an account an admin
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: User Accounts
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
3.10
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-04-19 20:19 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2015-04-15 14:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
show restart notification when account type changed (1.78 KB, patch)
2014-09-17 12:40 UTC, Ondrej Holy 		committed Details | Review

Description William Jon McCann 2012-04-19 20:19:29 UTC 
Choosing admin in the list isn't enough you have to logout. Ideally this wouldn't be needed. But if it is we should probably tell the user.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2013-04-19 17:28:41 UTC 
This could be done with a notification.

"You have been made an administrator on this system. You need to log out to upgrade your account.

[ Ignore ] [ Log Out ]"
Comment 2 Ondrej Holy 2014-09-17 12:38:57 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Choosing admin in the list isn't enough you have to logout. Ideally this
> wouldn't be needed. But if it is we should probably tell the user.

Why it isn't enough?
Comment 3 Ondrej Holy 2014-09-17 12:40:25 UTC 
Created attachment 286368 [details] [review]
show restart notification when account type changed

It can be done same way as for language changes if we really need this...
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2015-04-14 11:47:33 UTC 
(In reply to Ondrej Holy from comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Choosing admin in the list isn't enough you have to logout. Ideally this
> > wouldn't be needed. But if it is we should probably tell the user.
> 
> Why it isn't enough?

Because PAM only assigns group changes with new logins.
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2015-04-14 11:50:06 UTC 
Review of attachment 286368 [details] [review]:

There's extra libgd changes.

Rest looks good.
Comment 6 Ondrej Holy 2015-04-15 14:28:49 UTC 
Comment on attachment 286368 [details] [review]
show restart notification when account type changed

commit afe0a6226724571f263f9f11f00897bc4458380e