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

[James Westby]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.22.0-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu intrepid ubuntu-patch
Forwarded: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523180

Hi,

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.

Please see

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523180

and

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198172

for more information.

The attached patch fixes this by using the user's home directory if
they already exist.

Thanks,

James

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