Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

[Milan]

Richard Mancusi wrote:
> Okay, I did another clean install and can repeat the problem.  On a test
> system I always set a root password and allow root logon.  Yes, I know
> that isn't a great idea, but it comes in handy on a test system.
>
> As soon as I set a root password in System/Administration/Users and Groups
> the root user Home directory moved from /root to /home/root.
>
> I guess it's a matter of opinion as to whether this is a bug.  Ubuntu and
> common sense tells you to not set a root password.  But if you are going
> to allow it, it should work correctly.  I leave that to the developers.
>   
Agreed, setting a root password is a common Unix feature that should
remain possible to do with a simple 'sudo passwd' or optionally using
the Users admin tool. This should always work, regardless of what policy
we'd like to promote about the root account: here it is simply a bug.

Please open a bug report on users-admin. Anyway, forbidding to set a
root password should be done in a smarter way if we wanted to do so.

Cheers