User administration, groups are not sortable; users-admin

[psl]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

Ubuntu 9.04, i686;

1) GNOME tool to administer users in easy way, with GUI. I miss an option to sort groups in alphanumeric order. Groups are listed based on ID that it is not visible in the list. I would like to have an option to sort available groups based on ID or NAME. I talk about Manage "GROUP Window"

2) Until I don't unlock User management, I cannot see group details, all group names are printed in gray and I cannot open properties. As I can open file /etc/groups, I don't see any reason why to block this feature in lock mode.

3) I wish have to have an option to see in user detail groups he is member of. I see some list of predefined groups (User privileges) there but user can be added to other group in Manage group" window and this is hidden here.

4) When I run the tool from command line, I see some critical error:
# users-admin

** (users-admin:8828): CRITICAL **: Unable to lookup session information for process '8828'

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

While perhaps not an exact duplicate, it seems this bug relates to bug 259163

[Will Bickerstaff (willbickerstaff)]

1) is almost certainly a duplicate of bug 477324 which is upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603246,

Each of the others are all separate issues, it might be better to raise an individual bug for each of them.

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

Hi,

laserjock says he has a fix for this.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-devel/2010-January/003224.html

Hopefully he'll pass it on soon :-)

Gavin

[Gavin McCullagh (gmccullagh)]

Oops, sorry, that's for bug 259163

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Agreed with Will. 1) is duplicate of bug 477324.

2) is fixed in Lucid since we no longer require people to unlock the dialog to show/change settings.
3) would be a whishlist bug, which should be handled separately. Not sure that will happen though, if you want to manage group membership, that what the groups dialog is for, we won't add more complex settings in the user part (but see how this fits better in the new GUI in Lucid).
4) is not a bug in users-admin, likely something with PolicyKit. You should open a new report about that if authentication doesn't work, we'll see what happens.