Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
When I change the "Main Group" for my user under the "Advanced" tab of
the "Users and Groups" GUI, everything appears to work. However, after
selecting "Ok" and closing, nothing has changed, as I can confirm by
reopening the "Users and Groups" GUI and seeing the group has changed
back to the original.
I reproduced this with two users and tried several times and tried
logging out and back into sessions to see if that was needed for the
change to take. No dice -- it seems reproduceably broken: it doesn't
make the change advertised and doesn't warn you that it hasn't done it.
The workaround was to use the commandline. The following did exactly
what I wanted:
$ sudo usermod -g newgroup username
Version: gnome-system-tools 2.28-1-0ubuntu2
system-tools-backends 2.8.2-1
** Affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Changing "Main group" with users-admin GUI fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472525
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