[ubuntu-studio-devel] New ubuntustudio-controls

[Len Ovens]

On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015, at 03:58 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> I had forgotten to set that text box to not editable. Fixed with next
> upload.
>
>>
>> Everything else seems to work:
>>  	- mangled limits file, -controls fixed it
>>  	- controls will mangle limits file
>
> How does -controls mangle limits file?

Just my way of saying it changes the name correctly, not a bug. Sorry.

>>  	- removes and replaces audio group for installer and new user
>>
>> Note: does not work for a new user called "audio", In this case it will
>> add the user "audio" to the audio group, but not remove them.
>
> This is not a bug, since each user will have a group made for them, and
> if you call your user audio, the audio group will be the users audio
> group.

Yes, that makes sense. It also makes sense for someone to call the user of 
a computer "audio" if that is the account doing audio stuff.

> Try: sudo deluser audio audio
> Error message: /usr/sbin/deluser: You may not remove the user from their
> primary group
>
> I think rather it is a bug that you can create a user with the same name
> as an existing group.

I agree this is the root issue. I think this is why some applications 
always create both a user and a group if they are not running as root. It 
locks that username out of use. Perhaps we should create an audio user 
with a X password field.

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Len Ovens
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