I have successfully verified the update in -proposed. With lucid VM and all updates, changing the UID of a user to 999 didn't update /etc/passwd. After installing the update in -proposed, I could successfully change it to 999, at which point the user wasn't available in the GUI anymore.
@Charlie: I'm not sure why you weren't able to reproduce this. ** Tags added: verification-done ** Tags removed: verification-failed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to system-tools-backends in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542183 Title: [users-admin] Changing UID doesn't work -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs