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Mar 25, 2010

I am at my own desktop and I have root access on my own desktop.

I also have root access on a Desktop Ubuntu system (192.168.5.10) on the LAN. I need to create another desktop user account on that 192.168.5.10 system.

So I logged into that system with: ssh -Y myself@192.168.5.10
Then I did: sudo users-admin

This brings up the Users Settings but the Add User and Unlock buttons are disabled. How do I enable these buttons?

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