Bug 266218

Summary: kcron should ask for super user rights when choosing system cron
Product: [Applications] kcron Reporter: Christian Trippe <christiandehne>
Component: generalAssignee: Gary Meyer <gary>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: bradsk88, kdebugs, qydwhotmail, samuel.brack, schwimmca
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christian Trippe 2011-02-13 19:21:30 UTC 
Version:           2.0 (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

When I go into System Settings the System Cron options are all greyed out i.e. unavailable. In KDE 4.4 it prompted for the root password which is as it should be imho.

This was initially reported at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645577


Reproducible: Always




OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.37-6-default
Compiler: gcc
Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 23:01:56 UTC 
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.
Comment 2 bradsk88 2021-04-03 18:23:20 UTC 
I can confirm that this issue is still present. When I open KDE's "Task Scheduler" via the application launcher, the "system cron" tab is all grayed out and there is no prescription to the user for how to "un-gray" it.

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.80.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.10.23-1-MANJARO
OS Type: 64-bit
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 31.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Radeon RX Vega