yast user/group management

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hi all. On os11.4 i’m having this problem. I have to change details of the users of the system, but when i open yast2 / user management, it reads in the settings, groups and so on, but, when it shuold open the settings window, the applet closes suddenly and returns to the yast control centre. So no further editing is possible/allowed. Any idea? Thanks for reading

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On 05/06/2011 06:06 PM, bcrisciotti wrote:
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> hi all. On os11.4 i’m having this problem. I have to change details of
> the users of the system, but when i open yast2 / user management, it
> reads in the settings, groups and so on, but, when it shuold open the
> settings window, the applet closes suddenly and returns to the yast
> control centre. So no further editing is possible/allowed. Any idea?
> Thanks for reading

when you click to start YaST, does it ask for your root password?

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Hi, thank you for your interesting. Yes, yast asks for password as usual. Everything works fine, exept the user/group management. simply this module closes after reading in the necessary informations, making impossible to change/add users. On another tread i’ve read that the reason could be a corrupted yast mail module. It seems strange, but i’m going to check this. If successfull i’ll post again to help others in the same situation.

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Does the ncurses (text mode) interface behave the same way? (Try ‘yast’ from a root terminal).

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yes, the same…

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On 05/07/2011 11:36 AM, bcrisciotti wrote:
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> Everything works fine, exept the user/group management. simply
> this module closes after reading in the necessary informations, making
> impossible to change/add users.

wild guess (may be a waste of time):

open YaST, go Software Management, search for ‘yast’, in the resulting
list right click on and then mark the following for “Update” and click
the “Accept” button at the bottom…


yast2-users

then try again…if that does not help, show us the output of this:


ls -hal /etc/pas*
ls -hal /etc/gro*
ls -hal /etc/sha*

and, tell us if you have change any AppArmor settings, or maybe made any
changes to the settings in YaST > Security and Users > Local Security or
Firewall…and, if you did make adjustments in those, what happens to
YaST’s User Group Management if you undo what you did?

and, one word of caution: the security area of YaST is not a place to
experiment without reading the directions and having a workable recovery
plan–because it is possible to lock the world and even yourself (as
root) out of a linux box.

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CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[openSUSE11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Firefox3.6.17 + Thunderbird3.1.10 via NNTP]
HACK Everything → http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5b4CCe9pS8&NR=1

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Well! I solved the problem following what i did read on another forum (i don’t remember wich one). I installed yast2-mail and voila’: now yast2-users works!
Thanks all for your help

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On 05/07/2011 04:06 PM, bcrisciotti wrote:
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> I installed yast2-mail and voila’: now yast2-users works!

amazing!
what happened to your original yast2-mail?

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HACK Everything → http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5b4CCe9pS8&NR=1

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so this is the story. Actually i was having that problem in an appliance built by me in susestudio. This is not the first i build but it is the first time i encounter this issue. It happens that if yast2-users is selected for installation, yast2-mail is not automatically added. Since i use the official oss repo, i suspect that the package yast2-users has broken dependencies. I will investigate on this.

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Good work fixing this bcrisciotti. (I’ve never encountered this issue on any forum before before). Thanks for the update.

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On 05/07/2011 11:36 PM, deano ferrari wrote:
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> Good work fixing this bcrisciotti. (I’ve never encountered this issue on
> any forum before before). Thanks for the update.
>
>

its like the helpers here need to add a new question to their standard
response to a non-informative “My [fill in this blank] doesn’t work,
what do i do?”

now, along with “What operating system? Version? Desktop/version?” we
ask “Was it installed from media downloaded from software.opensuse.org,
or some other place? Where?”

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CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[openSUSE11.3 + KDE4.5.5 + Firefox3.6.17 + Thunderbird3.1.10 via NNTP]
HACK Everything → http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5b4CCe9pS8&NR=1