Ubuntu
gnome-system-tools package

changing primary user name

Bug #12746 reported by Larry McDaniel
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

After my son did a new install of Ubuntu on this laptop, I wanted to change the
user name. I did that with Computer >> System Configuration >> Users and Groups.
But then, I was locked out of the root terminal and sudo. Fortunately someone
showed me how to get to recovery mode and change it in /etc/sudoers.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

This should be disabled for the same reasons discussed in bug #12467

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Matt, do you want to simply mask the advanced tab for hoary ?

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Carlos Garnacho (carlosg) wrote :

this should not be an issue any longer if you make users belong to an admin
group for using sudo

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Sivan Greenberg (sivan) wrote :

(In reply to comment #3)
> this should not be an issue any longer if you make users belong to an admin
> group for using sudo

Will mask it out as I did for #6092, for hoary+1 we should think about how to
make this available to the unsuspecting user :-)

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Sivan asked me to take his bugs, since he does not have much time any more.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=2012)
preliminary BROKEN patch

This is exactly like the previous patch that disabled uid editing, however, it
breaks g-s-t somehow. On startup, all g-s-t tools exit with an "invalid
password" dialog (even network-admin and stuff, which are not changed at all).
*sigh*

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

(From update of attachment 2012)
this actually works, was a stupid side effect with gksudo, unrelated to the
patch.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

 gnome-system-tools (1.2.0-0ubuntu6) hoary; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/profiles.xml: Put Desktop and Administrator users into groups
     'video' and 'lpadmin'. (Ubuntu #7313, #7430)
   * Added debian/patches/21_disable_login_edit.dpatch:
     - Disable changing the username for now; this can be reevaluated for
       Breezy, but for Hoary we need something safe. (Ubuntu #6387)

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