On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 05:04:51PM -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Michal Jaegermann
<michal(a)harddata.com> wrote:
> I thought so too but this is not the case. You are correct if you
> are trying to modify these values through
> 'System->Administration->Date&Time' but this is not the only way
to
> do it and you need only your password for the first time and no
> password at all after that once you are on a desktop.
>
>> Has this changed in F11?
>
> No, this did not change in F11. The problem goes way back.
I'm not sure what's going on with your system, but on mine (F-10),
when I actually try to set the time, I am prompted for the
administrator password.
How you are trying to set time? As I wrote above - if through
'System->Administration->Date&Time' than _that_ will ask you for a
root password. But it turns out that this is not the only way you
can set clock from your desktop.
The default PolicyKit policies are working
fine here.
Could you, please, post an output from the following shell script:
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.
I guess that I should walk through the whole output of
'polkit-action' and see what else interesting I can find there.
Michal