10th December 2016, 6:47
As per https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread.php?tid=24146 I'm currently in the middle of converting my Lappy to dual-boot Maui + Mint. In the wee small hours i finished the Maui 1 installation & progressive upgrade to m2.1/p5.8.3. After that, when i was at the point where i needed to create a 2nd User, all attempts to do so via Settings - User Manager kept going wrong... user appeared to be created, but couldn't get the right permissions & encrypted /home access that i needed, couldn't use KWalletManager correctly, etc.
At that point i had not seen this thread, but i did my usual "trick"... gave up on Settings - User Manager, deleted the abortive 2nd User account, & installed gnome-system-tools. I discovered this tool a year or two ago, as Mint 17.x KDE4's User Manager also sometimes threw wobbles, + for setting up VirtualBox Shared Folders this Gnome tool is also extremely handy. I know that KDE/Plasma purists will recoil at installing a Gnome thing, but it is really handy to have available. FYI.
At that point i had not seen this thread, but i did my usual "trick"... gave up on Settings - User Manager, deleted the abortive 2nd User account, & installed gnome-system-tools. I discovered this tool a year or two ago, as Mint 17.x KDE4's User Manager also sometimes threw wobbles, + for setting up VirtualBox Shared Folders this Gnome tool is also extremely handy. I know that KDE/Plasma purists will recoil at installing a Gnome thing, but it is really handy to have available. FYI.