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While running M4 I renamed all the users by putting a 1 at the end of the username.
I then did a fresh install of M5, / partition was formatted but /home was not.
When I tried to add new users using MCC they are immediately marked as expired.
This is true even if I add a user that wasn't present when machine ran M4.

I cannot edit these users either, any changes I make to the details in MCC are not saved as when I try to edit an account again the old vales are still present.

How can I add users so they are not immediately expired?

Thank you

Seán

It seems that you have hit this bug:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16467

It is reported that using adduserdrake instead of userdrake will work

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adduserdrake

Jim

Thank you Jim.
Using your suggestion I was able to add users. However I can't use MCC now.

Looks like my problem is a small part of a bigger one. I pity anyone installing Magia 5 who doesn't have the backup of these support forums. It would put me off Mageia.
In fact I might go back to M4 myself till these problems are sorted.

Beir bua

Seán

For me, the original version of libuser still seems to work in MCC. Although there is a suggestion in the bug report that there may be a problem with it also.
You could try downgrading libuser to see if the original version works for you:

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urpmi --downgrade libuser-0.60-5.mga5 lib64user1-0.60-5.mga5

or, if you have a 32bit installation:

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urpmi --downgrade libuser-0.60-5.mga5 libuser1-0.60-5.mga5

Jim

You need to add it too to /etc/urpmi/skip.list that time we get fixed version otherwise it will update it automatically to that buggy version.

Thank you Jim and Ozky. I made those changes and M5 is behaving properly now. No doubt Mageia is using its mageia to sort this problem out.

Beir bua

Seán