Bug 725974

Summary: change own account details not possible
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1 Reporter: Christoph Jüschke <jueschke>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: ctrippe
Version: Beta 1   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: SUSE Other   
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Description Christoph Jüschke 2011-10-22 19:12:35 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110420 SUSE/3.6.17-0.2.1 Firefox/3.6.17

KDE System Settings/Account Details/
change username not possible (neither with user nor root password)

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2011-10-22 19:37:07 UTC 
hmm, it asks for my own password, not for root's.

this works:
sudo chfn -f "Stephan Kulow" coolo
Users can't change their finger informations with files, might be possible with other auth mechanisms depending on the server setup.
Comment 2 Christian Trippe 2011-10-23 04:45:17 UTC 
Very old upstream bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156396 and dup of bug 680725

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 680725 ***