Comment 13 for bug 390396

Version: (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from: Gentoo Packages
Compiler: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc 4.1.1
OS: Linux

Well, System Settings->About Me->Password & User Account is a frontend to chfn and passwd. Chfn does not allow to change the Full Name field of a regular user, except when run as root.

When you change the "Name" field, and click Apply, a new dialog prompts for the user password. When correctly entered, a message box appears showing "chfn:Permission denied". It does not matter if chfn is suid root.

Given I don't know what is the reason to prompt for a password in the first place, and then running a surely failing chfn command, it would be better to do one of the three following things:

o To disable the "Name" text box,
o To use a label instead of a text box for the "Name" field
o To not use chfn for the change of name, but just update the name field in the KDE config.