Can't change user account details - permission denied

geoffm · Post by **geoffm** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:39 pm

When I try to change anything in the Password & User Account settings, and Apply, I enter my password but I always get this error message:

An error occurred and your name has probably not been changed. The error message was:
chfn: Permission denied.

geoffm · Post by **geoffm** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:18 am

in /etc/login.defs change CHFN_RESTRICT to frwh

Ocean · Post by **Ocean** » Fri Nov 07, 2014 7:10 am

It worked?
After you can replace rwh?

Ocean · Post by **Ocean** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 12:20 pm

Works

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