[Bug 346655] Re: System settings will not allow me to change my user image.
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On 2009-02-05T00:08:13+00:00 Yb21com wrote:
Version: inconnu (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler: cc
OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.27-11-generic
Under Systemsettings, "About me" section.
When i click on the image icon on the left of the user logon name (i have no image), a message appears :
"Your administrator has disallowed".
I have the exactly same message when i try the same thing as root with
the root account.
I don't know if its KDE 4.2, Kubuntu, or the Linux kernel bug. I guess
its KDE, as changing image did work under kde 4.1.3 but not since i
upgraded to 4.2.0
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On 2009-02-05T00:09:28+00:00 Yb21com wrote:
Created attachment 30973
systemsettings about me - changing image message
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On 2009-03-10T18:18:54+00:00 MoiZie wrote:
I can confirm this bug. I have 2 systems, both kubuntu 8.10 kernel
2.6.27-7-generic and both running KDE 4.2.1. One of those systems is
able of changing the image, the other isn't. Root doesn't work either.
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On 2009-04-19T12:05:22+00:00 A-null wrote:
I have the same problem, too: KDE 4.2.2 from Kubuntu 9.04 RC
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On 2009-06-04T00:30:00+00:00 emikaadeo wrote:
Same here, Debian - KDE 4.2.4
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On 2009-06-19T21:42:54+00:00 0cs935kb517wwmwa7m9428daadkyev88fk76o-d8e2-wz6bkyhu4uqpfausw0ege9b0y33ege6o4wzvq wrote:
Did you activated user image in KDM as root?
Login in as root, in System Settings->Advanced->Login Manager->Users->User Image Source activate User
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On 2009-06-20T12:46:32+00:00 emikaadeo wrote:
... and that solves the issue.
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On 2009-06-20T12:59:07+00:00 A-null wrote:
Indeed it does :)
The error message should give a hint to where this can be changed, because for many KDE systems, the user who gets this message will actually be the administrator, and he will wonder where he can grant himself the necessary priviledges.
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On 2009-06-20T18:04:36+00:00 A-null wrote:
In addition, I wonder why we can not set the image if using it is
disabled for the KDM: The image is also used in other places (like the
K-Menu), so the picture really has nothing to do with KDM and should in
no way depend on its settings.
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On 2009-06-30T09:18:43+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:
*** Bug 192279 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2009-09-22T08:18:54+00:00 Gen2ly wrote:
Got this still using Arch 4.3.1. When using 4.1.x was allowed to change
this but on reinstall not able to any longer. Do these two images need
to be tied together or is it possible to override them?
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On 2009-10-13T18:09:07+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:
*** Bug 208334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2009-10-19T01:52:10+00:00 mattmill30 wrote:
Hi,
I've also got this problem.
Kubuntu 9.10 Beta
KDE 4.3.2
Thanks,
Matthew Millar
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On 2009-11-03T05:04:21+00:00 Updatedb wrote:
I can confirm this bug. kde 4.3.2
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On 2009-11-06T05:43:18+00:00 Ivan D Vasin wrote:
i encountered this bug after upgrading from Kubuntu 9.04 to Kubuntu
9.10. the suggestion in comment #5 did not alone fix the problem, but
thereafter running the command `rm ~/.face.icon` solved it. now if i
switch "User Image Source" to "System" and then back to "User, system",
i must close and reopen systemsettings before the problem goes away, but
i no longer need to run the rm command.
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On 2009-11-14T11:08:30+00:00 Ralf Jung wrote:
I have the same issue with KDE 4.3.2 - and I can only agree to #8, I see
so reason why setting the image has anything to do with KDM. After all,
that is just one place where this image is used - and the location where
it is saved is in my home directory, so how can root decide I can't
change it?
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On 2009-12-12T18:21:31+00:00 ErPanfi wrote:
Bug confirmed; also it's solvable by allowing user images in system settings -> advanced -> login manager -> user, accessing with root privileges (see #5 post).
Maybe the error message should addressing the user to the solution.
Thank you for all!
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On 2010-01-06T01:24:10+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:
*** Bug 221463 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2010-01-06T01:42:56+00:00 Jackson Williams wrote:
Well, I made a duplicate bug because I couldn't find this one... here's
what I wrote:
Version: (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS: Linux
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages
To reproduce:
- Open System Settings -> About Me
- Click user image
- Error message saying "Your administrator has disallowed changing your
image."
To fix:
- Open System Settings -> Login Manager -> Users tab
- Change "User Image Source" from "System" to "User, system"
Expected behavior:
- Default should be "User, system," not "System"
Usecases where an administrator wants to restrict ability of users to alter
their image are uncommon. "System" would probably only be used in large
deployments like schools or enterprise settings.
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On 2010-01-06T17:18:12+00:00 Ralf Jung wrote:
> Expected behavior:
> - Default should be "User, system," not "System"
>
> Usecases where an administrator wants to restrict ability of users to alter
> their image are uncommon. "System" would probably only be used in large
> deployments like schools or enterprise settings.
In addition, all this option does is creating a file ~/.face.icon with the chosen icon - an operation I can do manually even if the login manager is configured differently. KDM might not be the only application using it (AFAIK, the K-Menu also uses it). The KDM option just changes whether KDM *uses* the images provided by the users or the system in the overview (and that's also what its description says - nothing about forbidding the user to even have an image). Why am I no longer allowed to change my image if one of the many possible applications using it decides not to do so - that's what I don't understand.
So the best fix and the expected behaviour would be to simply remove this artificial dependency on the KDM settings from the "user & password" KCM.
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On 2010-02-22T20:05:54+00:00 Willow28 wrote:
Reading Yannick's original report described my problem and attempt to fix it precisely, excepting that my distro is OpenSUSE 11.2. But I assumed then it was 'yet another' KDE4 bug.
I've changed the 'User Image Source' as suggested and everything is working fine now.
Many thanks.
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On 2010-07-22T18:51:43+00:00 Ralf Jung wrote:
This seems to be fixed in KDE 4.4.2 - at least, I could change my image
with the KDM setting still being at "System".
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On 2010-11-14T19:03:56+00:00 Yb21com wrote:
OK i've found on a french kubuntu forum the way to bypass the bug !
I don't know if it's KDE bug-related or Kubuntu, but to me i's a bug.
Here is the way :
Go to System Setings > Advanced tab > choose Session Manager, Users tab.
User's image source : check the box "User, System".
Facts that generate the bug :
I think the 1st time you change and save the settings inside the Session manager and don't pay attention to the user's image source, you can't change your image anymore (i guess default setting is on "system").
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On 2010-11-24T02:15:07+00:00 BadBoy wrote:
(In reply to comment #22)
> OK i've found on a french kubuntu forum the way to bypass the bug !
THANK YOU :D
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On 2011-10-07T09:27:05+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:
*** Bug 283515 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2011-10-07T11:48:56+00:00 Ralf Jung wrote:
I created a patch to address this issue the way I described in #19. It
is being reviewed at https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102799/
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On 2011-11-09T19:01:29+00:00 Ralf Jung wrote:
Git commit f7ce3a513baef8479f76c6a9ad7809268a2ab32d by Ralf Jung.
Committed on 12/10/2011 at 14:16.
Pushed by ralfjung into branch 'master'.
kdepasswd KCM: facePerm is a KDM option, unrelated to the user setting
his face (for other apps)
REVIEW: 102799
BUG: 183245
FIXED-IN: 4.8
M +5 -64 kdepasswd/kcm/main.cpp
M +0 -1 kdepasswd/kcm/main.h
http://commits.kde.org/kde-
baseapps/f7ce3a513baef8479f76c6a9ad7809268a2ab32d
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On 2012-05-23T17:51:09+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:
*** Bug 300436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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