+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #105632 +++ From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030530 Description of problem: If you try to change the username of "root" the program will crash. It locks up and prints some errors to the terminal (if you ran it from there). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "redhat-config-users" in a term 2. Unfilter the system users 3. Go to properties of "root" 4. Change the root username to any other name. Actual Results: Locks up, it does change the name of root but many other things start to fail at that point. Expected Results: Not sure honestly, either it should work cleanly or not allow it in the first place. Additional info:
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