Bug 430508

Summary: administrator password required to change face icon
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Dan Robinson <dlrobin874>
Component: kcm_usersAssignee: Janet Blackquill <uhhadd>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: nate, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dan Robinson 2020-12-17 15:04:25 UTC 
Saw this mentioned in another bug report and thought it deserved its own report.

Changing user avatar requires administrator privileges (either user password or root password depending on PolicyKit configuration).

My understanding based on the comments in 422177 it seems there may be a dbus interface for setting avatars now, so maybe this just needs a change in PolicyKit? Not sure if KDE supplies its own configuration for that or if it needs to be reported upstream.

Regardless, somehow GDM and LightDM are able to read a face icon (although I'm not sure where they find theirs) without requiring an admin password to set, so it should be possible for KDE to do this as well.

Reported this as openSUSE RPMs because that's what's installed right now, but I've encountered this issue on every distro I've tried.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-07-30 17:27:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 437286 ***