users-admin doing lots of (apparently needless) work

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> when you add/edit an account with users-admin, /var/log/auth.log shows a
> large number of entries indicating that all users gid,shell,password all
> get reset even when they are unchanged.

> I have in the past noticed that having added a new account, users-admin
> could be rather slow to close.  I've just run the program on my home
> (debian etch) machine and tailed auth.log as I wait for it to close.  The
> delay corresponds to the time taken for the above entries to be generated.

I asked on the IRC channel for gnome-system-tools and am told that this bug
has been fixed since users-admin v2.15.  Hopefully this fix is in Edgy then.

Gavin