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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #26338
  2. Comment #68

Comment 68 for bug 26338

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Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades) wrote : Re: Adding a user to a group modifies other users' groups and passwords

I maybe have found something in system-tools-backend which could explain this weird bug.

system-tools-backends looks at the line number instead of the group name to see if a group have been deleted/added/modified.
Just look at the set function in /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Users/Groups.pm

I won't go into details but this behaviour works correctly only the first time.

If you launch users-admin, delete a group and then create a new user (with a new group), system-tools-backends will try to delete another group and will try to rename several groups (which fail because the target group name already exists).

/usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/Users/Users.pm seems to behave the same.

I am not sure this is the cause of this bug, I still don't see in what conditions it could trigger this bug.