System groups are hidden

[Martin Gamache]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

In Karmic Beta, when I go into Group Management (through Administration | Users and Groups), I can only see my user group and root.

I need to see the other groups to verify that i'm a member of vboxusers group (I have installed VirtualBox).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 5 00:57:51 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Actually I *think* this behavior has changed in Karmic because we fixed some bug with the GtkTreeModelFilter. The groups view was intended to work that way, but it was broken until now. You can show all the groups and users by going into gconf-editor and changing /apps/gnome-system-tools/users/showall.

Now, I don't think the way we work now is correct. Most people go to the groups list to perform administrative tasks, so they need to see system groups. The problem is, we only have a common option for users and groups, and we don't want to show system users by default.

I guess I'm going to commit a quick hack that forces all groups to be shown for 2.28.1, and in the next cycle we'll change the meaning of the GConf option. Sounds correct to Ubuntu devs?

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

OK, here's the patch applied upstream, so that we don't wait for the minor 2.28.1 release.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Fixed in 2.28.1. Anybody planning to package it to Karmic?

[Buddha (lord-buddha)]

Its in Karmic proposed.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Fixed in Karmic with 2.28.1.