System Settings - User Manager

[NickNak]

Hi All,

I'm trying to use the default User Manager module under System Settings and have noticed two issues:

1. My system currently has accounts for myself and one other, but User Manager shows only myself. I am user ID 1001, and the other is ID 1002.

2. I am unable to create a new user. I click 'New User', fill in his details on the right, press 'Apply', enter my password (I am an Administrator), and then nothing happens, no new user is created, no change is made to /etc/passwd

I know there are other ways to manage users, but I'm wondering if User Manager broken (in which case why is it part of the distro) or am I getting something wrong?

Best Regards

[oshunluvr]

Curious, it seems to work fine here. I have four users and could add another without difficulty.

I believe this was broken a while back. What distro/version are you using?

[jglen490]

Maybe I'm missing something, but my userID is 1000, as the only user, and Admin, on this system. I always thought that userID numbers start at 1000 in user space.

[oshunluvr]

Maybe I'm missing something, but my userID is 1000, as the only user, and Admin, on this system. I always thought that userID numbers start at 1000 in user space.

No, you're correct. But if you created two new users, then deleted the first user, you'd have only 1001, 1002. I'm not sure, but I think it counts up from the last highest user so deleting an earlier user would not automatically re-use that userid.

[NickNak]

Hi,

I'm using Kubuntu 17.10 with Plasma version 5.11.5 and Frameworks 5.41.0

[oshunluvr]

Are you sure you user is both in "adm" and "sudo" groups?

[jglen490]

No, you're correct. But if you created two new users, then deleted the first user, you'd have only 1001, 1002. I'm not sure, but I think it counts up from the last highest user so deleting an earlier user would not automatically re-use that userid.

O.K.. I get it. That would be a weird, but apparently allowable strategy.

[jglen490]

Enter:

id

to see the groups for the current user or

 id <username>

in a terminal to see what groups a specific user is in.

[oshunluvr]

If you just want group names, groups works;

groups <username>

[Rog131]

Other graphical user managers

Gnome has: GNOME System Tools - https://projects.gnome.org/gst/

Ubuntu packages: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?k...ll&section=all

LXQt has: lxqt-admin - https://github.com/lxde/lxqt-admin

Ubuntu packages: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?k...ll&section=all

As the LXQt ( https://lxqt.org ) is using Qt it applications will integrate fine with the KDE desktop - Integrating the LXQt user and group settings to the KDE: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...-2018?p=408813

[acheron]

Hi,

I'm using Kubuntu 17.10 with Plasma version 5.11.5 and Frameworks 5.41.0

A matching install here. It seems to work ok.

[oshunluvr]

A matching install here. It seems to work ok.

As expected. Seems most likely to me there's a missing group.