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[Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, this starting to be a bit weird..

When installing lubuntu onto a newly prepared partition, with respect to
Users and Groups I have found, on both occasions of an install to HD the
following ...
I'm using the a3 I downloaded 26th Feb from the wiki page link. I am using a
USB pendrive to boot from, created with 9.10 (10.04 'Ubuntu' was not
playing, I guess they broke that bit).

Preferences --> Users and Groups

Users Settings (GUI)

Phi11w

I can change name.
I cannot change account type from custom.
I can access password area.

I cannot Add a user.
I cannot access Advanced Settings
I can access Manage Groups.
I cannot Delete (probably because I'm the only user ?)
Pressing Help returns --> Failed to execute child process "gnome-help" (No
such file or directory)

I can sudo from the terminal.

>From running as usb, with persitence I can create a new user as admin and
log in okay with that user.

I attach my /etc/passwd and /etc/group as created by the installer, below --
It looks correct to me ..

*passwd*
*
*
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/bin/sh
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/sh
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/sh
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/bin/sh
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/bin/sh
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/bin/sh
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/bin/sh
gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/bin/sh
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/sh
libuuid:x:100:101::/var/lib/libuuid:/bin/sh
syslog:x:101:102::/home/syslog:/bin/false
messagebus:x:102:107::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
usbmux:x:103:46:usbmux daemon,,,:/home/usbmux:/bin/false
haldaemon:x:104:110:Hardware abstraction layer,,,:/var/run/hald:/bin/false
ntp:x:105:113::/home/ntp:/bin/false
phi11w:x:1000:1000:phi11w,,,:/home/phi11w:/bin/bash


*group*
*
*
root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:phi11w
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:
man:x:12:
proxy:x:13:
kmem:x:15:
dialout:x:20:phi11w
fax:x:21:
voice:x:22:
cdrom:x:24:phi11w
floppy:x:25:
tape:x:26:
sudo:x:27:
audio:x:29:
dip:x:30:
www-data:x:33:
backup:x:34:
operator:x:37:
list:x:38:
irc:x:39:
src:x:40:
gnats:x:41:
shadow:x:42:
utmp:x:43:
video:x:44:
sasl:x:45:
plugdev:x:46:phi11w
staff:x:50:
games:x:60:
users:x:100:
nogroup:x:65534:
libuuid:x:101:
syslog:x:102:
fuse:x:103:
crontab:x:104:
mlocate:x:105:
ssh:x:106:
messagebus:x:107:
lpadmin:x:108:phi11w
ssl-cert:x:109:
haldaemon:x:110:
admin:x:111:phi11w
netdev:x:112:
ntp:x:113:
phi11w:x:1000:
sambashare:x:114:phi11w


(No big secrets, that's the default system !!)

Regards,

Phill.