[OpenIndiana-discuss] 151a8 User/group gui frontend not usable

[Milan Jurik]

Hi,

please, log the bug. I did not use this for long time and nobody found
it yet.

Best regards,

Milan

On čt, 2013-09-12 at 10:35 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> On a recent install from 151a8 iso, I'm noticing the gui usr/group
> tool starts and takes root passwd but then the little stop watch thing
> shows up and it stays greyed out forever.
> 
> I've monkeyed around with useradd, usermod and groupadd to get the
> needed numeric gid for my user making file creation happen with a
> specific group (number).. but not seeing a clear way to do the same
> with owner.
> 
> Possibly my monkeying around is what has made the gui tool useless,
> but still there must be a way to make adjustments to try to bring that
> user/group tool back online. 
> 
> I'd hoped to arrange owner/group numbers for certain users to match
> those on a linux system.
> 
> Is there some way to debug the application?
> 
> Barring that, what is the best way to change the number assigned to a
> users 'owner' bits so that user X has a specific number?
> 
> Is it simply to make the change in /etc/passwd?
> 
> Then chown all that users files to match?
> 
> And even when creating users from the command line, I don't see a way
> in `man useradd' to set a numeric owner bit.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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