Adding a new user with "Real Name" containing an apostrophe fails

[Gary Hedgehog]

Problem can be reproduced in Gusty and Feisty (ubuntu).

When trying to add a new user:
- Click "System" -> "Administration" -> "Users and Groups"
- Click "Add User"
- In the "Real Name" field, type a name including an apostrophe, for example, "O'Neill"
- Fill in the password, etc
- Click "OK"
- Close the "Users and Groups (User settings)" window
- Re-open via "System" -> "Administration" -> "Users and Groups

Notice that the "Name" field is blank, though it should contain the "Real Name", for example, "O'Neill"

This seems to be another apostrophe bug.

[Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito)]

Confirmed for Gutsy,this is easily reproducible.

[Evan (ev)]

user-setup is a component of the alternate installer, not the "Users and Groups" GNOME application. Moved to gnome-system-tools.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519273

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

I've submitted a patch upstream to system-tools-backends which hopefully should resolve this bug.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519273

This should hopefully be committed upstream soon and filter down in the next update.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Fixed upstream, but as part of the system-tools-backends 2.8.2.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this has been fixed upstream now, thanks for reporting.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Fixed in the system-tools-backends 2.8.2 (see bug 443312).

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

Many thanks for everyone's the work on this, particularly Milan.

Gavin

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

You're welcome. Providing a patch usually gives incentive to people to fix your bug. ;-)
Anyway, now that you're familiar with the niceties of liboobs and friends, we'd be pleased to work with you, since we're going to fix several points there!