Re: [orca-list] ot: A nasty bug in user creation tools

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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kendell clark wrote:
> This was recently posted to the sonar list, but re-posting it here
> for wider review and testing.
>
>
> hi all I'm writing in to tell you all about a really nasty bug
> I've discovered in sonar that shouldn't, but might possibly, delay
> the new images a little. It goes like this. Create a new user,
> either graphically using user management tools in your desktop of
> choice. Then try to change to that user via the command line using
> su. Do not, I repeat, do not try to log in to that user account
> using a login manager. Your system will either lock up completely
> or the login manager will simply restart. The error is caused by
> ... actually I'm not sure exactly what's going on, but the new user
> is not able to access his/her home directory, and neither can any
> application that tries to place files there. The permissions are
> set correctly, according to gnome and running an ls -l on the
> folder, so I'm not sure what's going on. This seems arch specific,
> because the latest version of fedora, fedora 22, does not have this
> issue. I'm going to delay the next release of sonar until I can
> verify, and my two developers can also verify that this bug has
> been fixed. I'm trying to figure out where the bug is, which
> package it's in so I can file a bug.
>
> Could other people test to see if we can narrow down which 
> distributions are affected so I can file a bug and get this fixed?
> If you are not running a very recent distribution you needn't
> bother, this bug is recent because the latest version of fedora,
> fedora 22 isn't affected. Thanks for reading Kendell clark
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