Package: gnome-system-tools Version: 3.0.0-2 Severity: important When trying to delete a user, users-admin appeared to have worked: the user was removed from the list shown by users-admin, and no error message was displayed. However, a quick command-line check showed the user was still there. Indeed, after exiting and relaunching users-admin, the user was again shown in the list. This was repeatable.
Using the "deluser" command in a terminal provided the answer: deluser failed because that user was currently used by a running process. After killing that process, deleting the user in users-admin worked as expected. The security risk is that users-admin failed to delete the user (when the process was running) without ANY indication that anything was wrong, and so a trusting admin -if there is such a person :-) - could be fooled into thinking a user had been deleted when it had not. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.12.1-3 ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.2-3 ii libcairo2 1.12.2-3 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5 ii libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-6 ii liboobs-1-5 3.0.0-1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-3 ii perl 5.14.2-21 ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2 ii system-tools-backends 2.10.2-1 Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends: pn gnome-control-center <none> Versions of packages gnome-system-tools suggests: ii ntp 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
