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[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan@xxxxxxx>]

The control center "User accounts" applets is the successor, but it
doesn't show groups to the user. Ideally, choosing whether users are
Admins or Normal should be enough for everything. If people need to user
groups, they must be able to use the command line, because only these
operations require it anyway (and are only hacks).

users-admin still lives and can be used by admins that would need to set
user groups, but it's not really good for that since e.g. it doesn't
handle LDAP nor mass configuration. We'd need a tool designed
specifically for that...

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879453

Title:
  users-admin tool enforces policy it has no authority over

Status in “gnome-system-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  While some people frown upon capital letters in group names there is
  nothing in Debian policy that disallows them.  Yet, users-admin will
  refuse to operate on such groups and even throw out incorrect
  information as in "Please set a valid group name consisting of a lower
  case letter followed by lower case letters and numbers."

  Reference: bug 245791

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