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Comment 41 for bug 390396

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In , Dāvis (davispuh) wrote :

actually no, chfn -f changed only in /etc/passwd but in KDE it still showed old one, but I was able to succesfully change after using this workaround

> The workaround is as follows:
> 1. Edit /etc/login.defs and
> 1.1. Add 'f' to CHFN_RESTRICT if you didn't have it already, so now you
> should have: CHFN_RESTRICT frwh
> 1.2. Uncomment CHFN_AUTH (remove #).
> 2. Logout.
> 3. Login.
> 4. Fixed. Now you should be able to change your name from the System
> Settings.

maybe it's a feature? but then should have better error message, not just "Permission denied" which doesn't explain much.