Bug#1030253: gnome-control-center: Creating a user via "gnome-control-center user-accounts" results in a user with shell set to nologin

[Simon McVittie]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 + patch pending

On Wed, 01 Feb 2023 at 19:53:32 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> If I understand correctly, what gnome-control-center wants to do is
> to create a user with an invalid password (unable to log in), and then
> as a separate D-Bus transaction, do something to its password: either
> change the password, or put it into a state where the user can log in
> unauthenticated and will be prompted for a new password.
> 
> Probably it should now be using --disabled-password instead of
> --disabled-login to get that effect? adduser maintainers: is my guess
> correct?

Looking at adduser source code, it seems I was right about that being
the desired change. Fix pending in
https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/accountsservice/-/commit/9a479abc241af68ea2fc7e8ec896ac0ab2a39c58

> For now I'm only escalating this to important, but I think it probably
> deserves to be RC for accountsservice.

This triggered #1030262, which I think is enough to make it RC.

    smcv