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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #26338
  2. Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 26338

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 26338] Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords

Charles Twardy [2007-07-17 1:03 -0000]:
> 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?

Doing these experiments, and finding which steps lead to that breakage
starting from a clean installation would be really appreciated,
indeed.

> 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.

Using VirtualBox or VMWare with snapshots is an awesome and safe way
of trying it out, BTW.