Bug 434824

Summary: KDE4 System Settings - No Method To Enter Administrative Mode
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gerald Cox <gbcox>
Component: kdebase-workspaceAssignee: Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Preliminary support for root privs in systemsettings
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Description Gerald Cox 2008-02-25 17:54:55 UTC 
Description of problem:
System Settings (KDE) does not have mechanism to enter administrative mode to
change system settings, e.g. cannot modify Login Manager (KDM). 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-4.0.1-3.fc9.x86


How reproducible:
Enter system settings application.  No method provided to enter administrative
mode to change system settings.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  From KMENU, Select Computer, Select Applications (System Settings)
2.  Select Advanced, Select System (Login Manager)
3.  Options are "greyed out" - no method provided to change
  
Actual results:
Options are "greyed out" - no method provided to change

Expected results:
Some method to enter root or administrative mode to modify settings

Additional info:
KDE3 has a problem with administrative mode, but at does have a method
to enter.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434624
Comment 1 Lukáš Tinkl 2008-02-28 14:32:39 UTC 
Known problem but it hasn't been addressed yet at upstream - see 
http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/SystemSettings for details. 

Long story:
the module embedding and inter-process communication needed to achieve this 
was done using old QXembed classes and DCOP, both of them were simply thrown 
away when porting to KDE 4 with no replacement as of today.

I'll update the status here as soon as I know more about upstream plans.
Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2008-02-28 14:49:58 UTC 
So what do we do? Add a menu entry to launch all of systemsettings under kdesu 
(or consolehelper or whatever)?
Comment 3 Lukáš Tinkl 2008-02-28 15:14:45 UTC 
Created attachment 296221 [details]
Preliminary support for root privs in systemsettings
Comment 4 Lukáš Tinkl 2008-02-28 15:15:32 UTC 
Created attachment 296222 [details]
Fixed clock (date/time) kcm .desktop file
Comment 5 Than Ngo 2008-03-28 13:00:49 UTC 
*** Bug 439378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2008-04-16 11:56:57 UTC 
%changelog
* Tue Apr 15 2008 Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl> - 4.0.3-15
- workaround #434824: KDE4 System Settings - No Method To Enter Administrative Mode
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