Bug#548035: /usr/bin/users-admin: users-admin sets su's path to /home/root

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Sep 24 11:09:05 UTC 2009


Le mercredi 23 septembre 2009 à 14:06 +0200, Christoph Rathke a écrit : 
> When using the graphical users-admin to change the root password, (the first time 
> after installation) I had to find out, the home directory of root (automatically - 
> I didn't touch that!) changed to /home/root. Becaus the window is very small, you 
> don't recocognize that so easy. 
> but later when synaptic comes with an error: 
> E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - 
> mkdir (2 No such file or directory) 
> the normal desktop-user stumbles over the mistake. 
> (also happend to users on ubuntu 8.04)
> thanks. 

This bug is already fixed in unstable, but the lenny version is still
affected. I guess its seriousness mandates a stable upload.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling
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