Comment 52 for bug 26338

My machine was a fresh Dapper Drake install. The users in question were
all newly created ones. I created users, then created groups. Then I
started adding users to groups. After I exited the admin tool and saved the
changes I went to configure the printer and could not. I tracked it back to
rights issues with root - sudo was failing also. I don't believe it
happens in the command line user admin tools - I used those to undo the
damage.

I recently tried v7.04 as a test drive and it had the same issue.

On 7/16/07, Charles Twardy <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Likewise, most of the reports did very simple things. I tried to add a new
> user. (However, it's also likely that a defunct user of the same name was
> in /etc/group or /etc/passwd because once upon a time those had been
> copied from another machine.)
>
> But it stands to reason that it doesn't happen all the time,
> or developers would have noticed that they lost sudo.
>
> Anyone have a fresh spare machine they can experiment on? Does this happen
> from a fresh install? If there's extraneous entries in the files? If
> you mix adduser and users-admin? Or useradd?
>
> I'd rather not muck around with my work system, as I'm not convinced I've
> localized the damage. My office might be able to dig an old machine out
> of storage, but I'm swamped for the next week at least.
>
> -Charles Twardy
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Green wrote:
>
> DG>Hmm.... Well it has been a while since I looked at it but all I did to
> DG>create the bug was use the GUI user-admin too to reassign a user to a
> DG>group. I noticed after that that directories the users should have had
> DG>access to they did not. Further investigation showed that they were
> not in
> DG>the groups I'd put them in and I had to reset root's password to be
> able to
> DG>run sudo to fix things.
>
> --
> Charles R. Twardy
> <email address hidden>
> <email address hidden>
>
> --
> Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26338
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