unable to add new users / new users not showing in log in window

Thank you for taking your time to file this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Can you check whether the user is actually getting created by doing "su <username>" in a terminal? It will ask you for the user password and should change the user to the one specified in the above command.

okay, ive run the command mentioned (su username) and i get " unknown id: user name " im no expert but this says to me that the user doesnt exist :-)

ive tried creating a new user (with a different name) by going to system settings - user management and then going to administrator mode and adding a new user, but it doesnt seem to create one.

i have also tried running sudo useradd user name, and then doing su user name, this works, but the new user doesnt show up in either the user management option or the login window.

cheers

(SOLVED)

progress, it seems that for some reason using the gui to add /remove users and change groups etc isnt working for some reason, which i have yet to discover.

however if i run " sudo adduser " in a terminal and follow the instructions i can add a user (but with a limited account)
so once ive created the user i need to change the permissions, eg - make them a member of the admin group so that they can install updates etc, but again the gui will not allow me to do this (not even in administrator mode)

so what i have done, is to edit the /etc/group file to add the user to the admin group this way, which will then give them the needed access.

this is the way ive done it, and it works and hasnt caused any issues (that i have discovered as yet) so maybe some one will find this useful ?

as i said i have no idea why i wasnt able to do this using the system settings way.

Thanks for the updates, but unless you are able to do it in the GUI it's a bug, as the GUI is entitled to enable you add or remove users. We need someone else to confirm the same bug on Kubuntu 8.04 :)

Rather a kde-guidance than a kdebase issue.

Did you go into Adminstrator mode first?

I can confirm this bug: I use Kubuntu 8.04, upgraded directly from Kubuntu 6.06.2, and this is the first time I have tried to add a user via the GUI.

The GUI allows me to input all the data for a new user, and then select groups, but once I exit the GUI the user does not exist. I tried logging out/logging back in and rebooting, but no new user shows up, nor does their /home/NEWUSER directory exist.

The CLI tools work fine.

I did activate the administrator mode (which is the only way to activate the Modify/New/Delete buttons).

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!