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[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I should have made clear I was speaking from an upstream (GNOME)
point of view. I've not said Ubuntu wouldn't fix the problem (even if I
know they won't). Ubuntu ships a version of users-admin that's more than
a year old, so even if I fixed things upstream you wouldn't notice. My
advice (to Ubuntu) is that they move to the new GNOME control center
users applet.

As for the specific problem of running as root, AFAIK any newly
installed system comes with a non-root admin account. And something I
*did* fix in users-admin when it was still developed is that it will not
allow you to remove the last admin account.

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Title:
  users-admin hangs immediately when run as root

Status in “gnome-system-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

  When users-admin is run as root, whether by sudo, gksudo, or from a
  root shell (started with "sudo su"), it hangs. The "busy" mouse
  pointer (spinny wheel, with the default theme) is shown. The widgets
  in the window are drawn (though the users list is not populated), but
  faded out and unusable. It does not monopolize CPU resources in this
  state. SIGTERM kills it without incident.

  This is on a 64-bit Maverick system (with version 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 of gnome-system-tools). The output of "uname -a" on this system is:
  Linux Apok 2.6.35-23-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 11:55:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  When run as a non-root user, users-admin works without problems,
  including when performing tasks requiring it to elevate privileges to
  root while running (e.g. creating a user). And it works fine when a
  non-root user runs it as an alternate non-root user.

  I have also reproduced this bug on a 32-bit Maverick system, as well
  as a 32-bit Natty system (same gnome-system-tools package version).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gnome-system-tools 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Dec  4 10:36:40 2010
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/users-admin
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools

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