Comment 13 for bug 240437

Dimitrios: I have retested this with the latest Jaunty (development branch) Live CD and the fault remains similar to my original report with Hardy.

Run users-admin GUI from terminal...

Users Settings box remains blank
Manage Groups box remains blank
Unlock button greyed out with tip "This action is allowed"

Xubuntu 9.04 Live CD on AMD-K6 terminal output while adding user "test" via GUI...

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ users-admin

(users-admin:22640): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(users-admin:22640): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(users-admin:22640): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

Note that no users are visible in box before or after adding user "test".

However, home directory for user "test" is now created BUT...
cat /etc/passwd now shows only users "root", "ubuntu" and "test".
cat/etc/group now shows only groups "root" and "ubuntu".

Numerous users and groups have disappeared from /etc/passwd and /etc/group after adding user "test" via users-admin GUI.

sudo capability is now lost.