creating an "admin" user makes it impossible to adminster the system
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
If you use create and "admin" user, you will lock yourself out so that you
cannot do any more administration. Why? Simple.
The "admin" user is created along with a new "admin" group.
The new "admin" group has a different GID number and it is cleared
of other members. As a result, you (i.e. the previous adminstrator)
no longer have "admin" group membership.
As a result of *that*, you can't do sudo, because the /etc/sudoers
file checks for group="admin".
QED.
I used the GUI tools in ubuntu 8.04 (users-admin in gnome-system-tools; accessed from the
system-
I believe this is a bug in the tool used to create a new user. It should *not* overwrite
and clear an existing group. Instead, it should report some reasonable error message.
This is similar to bug 99276 but more serious.
| Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gnome-system-tools: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 236305, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.