Users administration tool - advanced settings window size problem

[Brian]

I am using MATE, so my steps will be as such....

If I go to the menu: System -> Administration -> Users and Groups
When the window opens, I have only one user. Under that user, I click on button 'Advanced Settings'. After I authenticate and the window opens, it appears on my screen very tall to the point where I cannot even see the bottom of the window where I assume there are some buttons like Cancel, Ok, Submit, or something to confirm or deny changes made. The window is somewhat narrow which looks fine, but there is a lor of wasted space vertically. I am unable to resize this window at all, not horizontally or vertically. The resizing icons appear, but the window itself will not resize.

I believe I have the current version, but there is no version/about or anything on this tool. The help is really of no use for this, and it does contain the following, but the link goes to an invalid URL.
"To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the Users Administration Tool or this manual, follow the directions in the GNOME Feedback Page."
I am using MATE 17.10 with all updates valid as of today per Package Manager.

This may seem somewhat minor, but without a 'yes or no' button option, these settings are all useless.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Brian (thwaller)]

You marked as a duplicate back from 2012, where the target was to be obsolete, thus this issue not being fixed. If that was on obsoleted components, the components I have in use today could not then be a duplicate, correct? The reference there is Ubuntu Precise whereas I am on Bionic.

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

Was it mate-system-tools that was installed on your system?

[Brian (thwaller)]

I would assume so ... it was an install from the MATE installer. I cannot verify that anymore, that system is no longer active as it was at the time of the bug report. I do recall however that I reported this based on the help of the module I was using. I do not recall the exact of it, but I used something like the "report bugs here" in the help/about section.

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

It looks like mate-system-tools (which is a fork) was abandoned upstream and removed from Ubuntu MATE.

The 18.04 ISO and probably some earlier releases contain the outdated gnome-system-tools once again.