Bug 76292

Summary:	User manager does not open
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael <mleppelman>
Component:	redhat-config-users	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
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Description Michael 2002-10-19 13:28:02 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Description of problem:
I am having problem with the user manager that is in Xwindows. everytime I 
click on it to open it nothing happens.  all it does is bring up the question 
about authorization. asking if I would like to keep the authorization or for 
get it. I just installed linux on my Machine last night and I can't seam to 
figure out why the user/group manager is not working not working  

I have tried to run the redhat-config-user from the terminal commad window 
from xwindows and it came up with a segmention fault here is the 
fault /usr/share/redhat-config-users/redhat-config-users: line 4 1696 
segmantation fault	  /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/share/redhat-config-
users/redhat-config-users.py
the 1696 is a diferant number every time



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on user/group in the kde menu
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  nothing happens

Expected Results:  It should have brough up the user manager

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael 2002-10-20 03:04:46 UTC

I have also tried to delete my user password by typing passwd -d then the user
name and it also came up with a segmentation fault that is all it said.  I do
not know if this has anything to do with the other problem or not but I do
beleave the problem is related.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-10-21 15:09:14 UTC

Have you edited /etc/passwd by hand?  Also, did you specify in the installer or
authconfig to use MD5 passwords?

Comment 3 Michael 2002-10-21 22:10:15 UTC

I have loaded up the /etc/passwd in a text editor after I notice nothing would 
work but did not edit it. I do have tha ability to do so however. I have 
reinstalled linux 4 times and I tried it with and without MD5 passwd. I have 
also tried it with and without shadow passwd

Comment 4 Michael 2002-10-21 22:38:33 UTC

I have also tried to edit the about myself in the control center and after
typing in my passwd it came up with "unknown error" in a window and an ok button
I wonder if all these problems are related.

Comment 5 Brent Fox 2002-10-22 15:42:19 UTC

My guess is that they are all related.

Comment 6 Brent Fox 2002-10-22 20:31:35 UTC

Ok, I can reproduce this crash if I select to not use MD5 passwords and shadow
passwords during the install.

Comment 7 Brent Fox 2002-10-22 20:36:42 UTC

However, this is a libuser bug and not a redhat-config-user bug.  To
demonstrate, do the following as root:
1) # /usr/bin/python
2) >>> import libuser
3) >>> admin = libuser.admin()

Segmentation fault.  

This bug is a dupe of bug 68245.




*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68245 ***

Comment 8 Michael 2002-10-22 23:50:14 UTC

I can reproduce the problem with or with out MD% or Shadow password.  the things
you wanted me to do as root.  I do not get the error unless I have the MD5 password.