Till permanent solution is found, A workaround will be highly appreciated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269196
Title: KUser broken when used from Gnome or Unity Status in kdeadmin package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I like to use KUser to manage users/groups. However, the default package installation and subsequent launch via Gnome Applications -> System Tools -> KUser menu results in the following error: "Cannot open /etc/shadow for reading". It does not ask for my password, rather attempts to launch without escalating my privileges: The default "exec= " line in /usr/share/applications/kde/kuser.desktop is: Exec=kuser %i %m -caption "%c" I must modify the default /usr/share/applications/kde/kuser.desktop "exec= " line to reflect the following to get it to work: Exec=gksudo kuser I'm guessing the default "exec= " line reflects variables present only in a KDE session, although this is just a guess. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdeadmin/+bug/269196/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
