Bug#488252: gnome-system-tools: don't inadvertantly change the users home directory

[James Westby]

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 18:35 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> James Westby wrote:
> > If the administrator has set up profiles (we do by default in Ubuntu)
> > then if a users home directory differs from that which their profile
> > would suggest (e.g. root on Ubuntu), then changing anything about
> > that user will change their home directory.
> 
> I think it doesn't make sense to add this unless #488256 is accepted (either at
> Debian or upstream, and if it's done upstream I'd hope this is fixed there too).

I would suggest that it is still worth having as an admin could
add profiles locally, and this bug can have quite nasty consequences.

While it is probably rare for an admin to do this it would seem
sensible to protect them from a known bug.

Thanks,

James