Shouldn't let you desactivate the only admin user
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| | gnome-control-center |
Fix Released
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Low
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| | gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Low
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| | Precise |
Low
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| | unity-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Low
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Bug Description
If there is no other admin accounts in the system, it is very difficult to switch account back after changing account type to "Standard". This is because we can't "sudo" anymore. The only way to fix it is entering single user mode and editing /etc/group. I think there should be some warning at least if the user is the only administrator in the system and he tries to become "Standard" user (by accident in my case). For example, Windows systems don't let you do this in similar situation.
Related branches
| summary: |
- Switching user account type in a case of single user. + Switching user account type from Admin to Standard in a case of single + user. |
| Ahmed Shams (ashams) wrote : Re: Switching user account type from Admin to Standard in a case of single user. | #1 |
| Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Another reason this would not work as a papercut, and the more important one in my mind, is that it's not a problem that the 'average user' would encounter in their day-to-day usage of Ubuntu.
| Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote : | #3 |
What version are you using? I have implemented checks so that one cannot remove itself from the admin group if he's the last admin years ago. Could you check they don't work?
Anyway, Ubuntu doesn't use the gnome-system-tools by default anymore, so maybe you think about gnome-control-
| Roman Voropaev (ytsuk3n) wrote : | #4 |
Yes, it is gnome-control-
| affects: | gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| summary: |
- Switching user account type from Admin to Standard in a case of single - user. + Shouldn't let you desactivate the only admin user |
Removing hundred-papercuts task to reduce non-papercuts bug mail .
| no longer affects: | hundredpapercuts |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : | #6 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https:/
| description: | updated |
| tags: | added: disable settings |
| Roman Voropaev (ytsuk3n) wrote : | #7 |
added to GNOME Bugzilla: https:/
| Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
| status: | New → Unknown |
| Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Low |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
| Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : | #8 |
The issue has been fixed in that update:
https:/
| no longer affects: | unity-control-center (Ubuntu Precise) |
| Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
invalidated in hundred One Hundred Paper Cuts since it's a feature request.