Bug 371216

Summary: Users added from user-manager are useless right now
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Gabriel C <nix.or.die>
Component: kcm_usersAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: fincer89, nate, nix.or.die, shalokshalom
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.16.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gabriel C 2016-10-19 12:36:48 UTC
From a Distro point of view a new user need to be in some groups like video , audio , network 
and so on.. to have working thing.

Right now we can have an default user or an admin one.

This is because accountsservice just define 2 types of users:

 ACCOUNT_TYPE_STANDARD
 defaults taken from useradd -> group users

ACCOUNT_TYPE_ADMINISTRATOR
taken from internal default wheel or taken form command line at compile

Without a way to modify the user users with just groups 'users' can't do much in any kind Distro.

This could be fixed in 2 ways:

1) offer a option to modify users and run usermod on these
 hacky right now since you need offer a UI option to put the user in groups a , b ,c
 run accountsservice default and run usermod on the user..
2) get an patch ustream to allow additional groups for  ACCOUNT_TYPE_STANDARD

3) a mix of both :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add some user with user-manager
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
User has just users as group or user+admin group without a way to modify

Expected Results:  
option to add users with other groups
Comment 1 Matthias 2017-06-23 10:21:33 UTC
Isnt that a basic thing to do for a user-manager?
How can this be called ready for production?
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-01-21 16:06:41 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 365787 ***