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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #484559
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 484559

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 484559] Re: Xubuntu: Cannot change own password because users-admin needs gnome-about-me

On Wed Nov 18 11:37:47 UTC 2009 Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Ouch! Indeed, that was a side-effect of our recent patch that was not
> expected. The rationale for running gnome-about-me was that its way of
> changing your password allowed eCryptfs Private directory to be mounted
> with the new password: see bug 307019. Maybe the best solution for now
> would be to install gnome-about-me on Xubuntu - I don't think it has
> many dependencies.

I intended to make gnome-system-tools recommend gnome-about-me, but
missed this in my upload, sorry. That would have installed it on Xubuntu,
but I'm not sure if it would have been pulled in on upgrades, I would
have to ask.

We could fix this in an SRU.

> James: How ironical - the more you solve bugs, the more you have to work
> on them... ;-)

Too true :-)

Thanks,

James