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