Just ran into this bug. Clean installation of Ubuntu Desktop 8.04. Running "users-admin" from console works as expected. Running "users-admin" or "sudo users-admin" from remote connection (e.g. ssh X11 forwarding, NXClient, etc) does not allow administrative access to unlock the tool.
The error given is: ** (users-admin:9673): CRITICAL **: Unable to lookup session information for process '9673' "ck-list-sessions" output below shows minor differences between a local and remote session. Session1: uid = '1000' realname = 'Gilbert Mendoza,,,' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = TRUE x11-display = ':0' x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7' display-device = '' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2008-05-29T16:48:47Z' idle-since-hint = '2008-05-29T17:09:07Z' Session3: uid = '1000' realname = 'Gilbert Mendoza,,,' seat = 'Seat3' session-type = '' active = TRUE x11-display = 'localhost:10.0' x11-display-device = '' display-device = '/dev/pts/0' remote-host-name = 'hostnamewashere.local' is-local = FALSE on-since = '2008-05-29T21:10:32Z' -- Users-admin unlock not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183673 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs