clock riddle
Michal Jaegermann
michal at harddata.com
Tue Feb 24 18:17:49 UTC 2009
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:33:46AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 15:47 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > for a in settimezone settime configurehwclock ; do
> > polkit-action --action org.gnome.clockapplet.mechanism.$a
> > done
> >
> > The only interesting parts are really default_active. If that says
> > "auth_self_keep_always", which is a "factory default", then you do
> > need a root password for these changes but you have to do them
> > differently than you tried.
>
> Since you asked:
...
> default_active: auth_self_keep_always
^^^^^^^^^^
So here is your answer. Using clockapplet to do all actions in
question you have to authenticate yourself, with your password and
not root, _only once_ for a lifetime of your installation (unless
root will explicitely revoke those priviledges).
Michal
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