Users and Groups

[Karl Larsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Frank Cox wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:49:30 -0600
>>>> Jeff Krebs <jkrebs at tconl.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> You have the option to ignore, or better yet, use procmail and the
>>>>> "From:" header to directly divert "problem" emails to /dev/null.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Unfortunately, that does nothing to solve the problem of
>>>> mis-information being added to the list archives.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>    There is no mis-information on the original message. My purpose
>> for writing the message was to see if anyone felt the same as me
>> about the problem caused by checking all the choices in the thing.
>>     
>
> stop lying, karl.  seriously, just stop it.  your original post did
> not just "see if anyone felt the same as me".  and i quote from
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg00927.html:
>
>   
Snip

    I just re-started Users and Groups and clicked on Edit and 
preferences and put an x in each of the spaces provided. Then I clicked 
on Help on the top and then Help Contents and neither came up.

    The main panel shows nothing but my user data. This is what I saw 
when I first tried to make me a Group member of uucp. I could find 
nothing that has a thing to do with uucp! When I click on my line it is 
just about my login. I gave up.

    I used #usermod karl -a -G uucp and that worked. It made karl a 
member of group uucp.

    Went back to Users and Groups trying to verify that usermod did the 
trick. This time I clicked Edit again and saw preferences and clicked on 
that. I saw all the things with an x in them and thought this must be 
right. But just to be sure I removed all the x's.

    To my amazement all the Users and Groups were displayed. I found 
uucp and with the Group tab saw karl,uucp were group members. So it 
worked. I pretended not to have my karl in the uucp group and clicked on 
the uucp group and up came a Group properties window. It would be simple 
to find karl on that list and put an x in that line.

    So my two problems with this tool is the lack of help and the way it 
is found the first time you use it.

    There needs to be a way to tell the people working on this 
application what is wrong. It is not a bug but it needs to get to them.

Karl
 


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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