Hi, this is valid for kde 4.9beta1 (4.8.80), if I go to systemsettings -> Common Appeance -> Account Details -> Password & User Details and I try to change something (eg. name filed), hit Apply and I get this error message : "An error occurred and your name has probably not been changed. The error message was: chfn: Permission denied." Attaching log of systemsettings output, here's a reduced part: " systemsettings(3343)/kutils (KCModuleProxy) KCModuleProxyPrivate::loadModule: Module not already loaded, loading module "Password & User Account" from library "kcm_useraccount" using symbol "kcm_useraccount" systemsettings(3343)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::exec: [ /build/src/kdelibs-4.8.80/kdesu/process.cpp : 293 ] Running "chfn" systemsettings(3343)/khtml (caret) DOM::Selection::moveTo: Selection[ Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) 1 ] Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) systemsettings(3343)/khtml (caret) DOM::Selection::validate: Selection[ Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) 1 ] 0 systemsettings(3343)/khtml (caret) DOM::Selection::validate: [character:baseIsStart] true Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) Position( 0x0 "null" : 0 ) systemsettings(3343) KCMUserAccount::save: ChfnProcess->exec() failed. Error code: 3 Output: "chfn: Permission denied." systemsettings(3343)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig: systemsettings(3343)/kparts KParts::Part::slotWidgetDestroyed: deleting part "" " I found old but maybe relevat discussion here: http://osdir.com/ml/kubuntu-bugs/2012-05/msg00265.html su and sudo are installed, tried also adding (for Arch unofficial) kdesudo, didnt help. Any ideas? Thank you, Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 71598 [details] full systemsettings log trying to change a user details field.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 156396 ***
This is unlikely to be a duplicate, nor a bug in KDE. The most probable cause for "chfn: Permission denied." is the system configuration (/etc/login.defs) disallowing such changes.