Comment 11 for bug 666555

I apologize for not attaching the files the second time.

Now I seem to have a bigger problem, it will not let me add an account. I have been continuing to configure my system, but I don't know (obviously) what I did wrong. In general I have edited various configuration files and merged them from a previous Ubuntu system. I have gone back and checked the file owners and modes from a backup I created just after installation.

Would you please help me to sort this out? Then I will get back to the original problem, if it still exists.

I have followed the procedure, adding using "script" to capture what I typed. Files attached in a tar file. I:

Started script on Console 1 capturing in console1.log
Started script on Console 2 capturing in console2.log

Typed:
sudo killall /usr/bin/perl; sudo /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m UsersConfig -v &> ~/stb-users.log
in console 1 per web page, and as captured in console1.log
Entered by password.

Typed:
users-admin &> ~/users-admin.log
in console 2 per web page, and as captured in console2.log
Clicked "Add"
"Create a new user" dialog appeared
Provided Name and Username, both "bugta"
Dialog popped up: "Tye configuration cannot be saved. You are not allowed to modify the system configuration"
Exited user creation tool.
Exited script shell on console2
Exited script shell on console1

I was logged in as "administ", which when I run "id" prints:
uid=1000(administ) gid=1000(administ) groups=1000(administ),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),111(lpadmin),119(admin),122(sambashare),123(vboxusers)

grep administ /etc/group prints:
admin:x:119:administ,ray,rnsc,rnscadm

ls -l passwd shadow group gshadow
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1662 2011-01-16 14:19 group
-rw-r----- 1 root shadow 1441 2011-01-16 14:19 gshadow
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2712 2011-01-16 14:19 passwd
-rw-r----- 1 root shadow 2874 2011-01-16 14:19 shadow