Ubuntu
gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #26338
  2. Comment #57

Comment 57 for bug 26338

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renbag (renbag) wrote : Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords

I've experienced this bug in the following situation:

at my workplace I've set up several machines running Ubuntu 7.04 and which are
integrated in an Active Domain Network controlled by a Windows Server. I did
this using samba, kerberos and winbind, and now these machines can be used with
local and domain accounts (domain accounts are not listed in /etc/passwd but are
managed by winbind).
To allow some domain accounts to gain administrative privileges I added them
manually to the admin group with 'adduser'.
After that, if you use System -> Administration -> Users and Groups to add a new
user, all the domain users (not local users) which were granted admin rights
will lose their privileges. This happens because they are deleted from the admin
group in /etc/group.
The problem does not occur when using the command line utility (adduser).