When running the user-manager KCM in an unprivileged environment/as unprivileged user, user-manager still allows to change attributes and doesn't report any issues when clicking "Apply". The CLI output clearly shows the issues: log_user_manager unknown: 0 log_user_manager unknown: 132 log_user_manager unknown: 1000 log_user_manager unknown: Saving on Index: 1 log_user_manager unknown: "org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied" log_user_manager unknown: "Authentication is required" log_user_manager unknown: "org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied" log_user_manager unknown: "Authentication is required" log_user_manager unknown: "org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied" log_user_manager unknown: "Authentication is required" log_user_manager unknown: "org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied" log_user_manager unknown: "Authentication is required" log_user_manager unknown: "org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied" log_user_manager unknown: "Authentication is required" log_user_manager unknown: Failed Roles: (AccountModel::Username, AccountModel::RealName, AccountModel::Email, AccountModel::Administrator, AccountModel::AutomaticLogin) Those cases should be handled. Either there's a proper way to determine initially whether the permissions are sufficient to disable relevant UI operations or at least when applying the changes (unsucessfully) a message should be shown. Running: - all KF5/Plasma 5 components from git and up-to-date - Qt 5.4.1 - AccountsService 0.6.40 - D-Bus 1.8.16
Still an issue with the new Users kcm of Plasma 5.20 beta.
*** Bug 428537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Appears to be the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/kde-workspace/+bug/1883357 .