Bug#773613: users-admin: group name limited to 16 characters

Christopher Chavez chrischavez at gmx.us
Sat Dec 20 20:23:14 UTC 2014


Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 3.0.0-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I am reporting the issue described in Launchpad #1371854 upstream
as I can reproduce it on Debian with gnome-system-tools-3.0.0-4.

In users-admin (a.k.a. Users Settings), under Manage Groups/Group Settings,
while the listed groups available may have more than 16 characters, when
viewing a group's properties the Group name field in Basic Settings only
shows the first 16 characters (e.g. "chrome-remote-desktop" is truncated as
"chrome-remote-de"). Additionally, this prevents creating a group with a
name longer than 16 characters using users-admin.

(I understand that the system limit may have been 16 characters historically;
man groupadd reports it is currently 32 characters.)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-13
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.8.12-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1
ii  liboobs-1-5                                  3.0.0-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-8
ii  lxsession [policykit-1-gnome]                0.5.1-2
ii  policykit-1-gnome                            0.105-2

gnome-system-tools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools suggests:
pn  gnome-control-center  <none>
ii  ntp                   1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3.1+b1

-- no debconf information




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