Bug 434824 - KDE4 System Settings - No Method To Enter Administrative Mode
Summary: KDE4 System Settings - No Method To Enter Administrative Mode
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdebase-workspace
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lukáš Tinkl
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-25 17:54 UTC by Gerald Cox
Modified: 2015-07-13 17:36 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-04-16 15:50:09 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Preliminary support for root privs in systemsettings (2.39 KB, patch)
2008-02-28 15:14 UTC, Lukáš Tinkl
no flags Details | Diff
Fixed clock (date/time) kcm .desktop file (413 bytes, patch)
2008-02-28 15:15 UTC, Lukáš Tinkl
no flags Details | Diff


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KDE Software Compilation 151669 0 None None None Never

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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