On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 20:46 +0100, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 15:35 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <[email protected]> [10-31-14 09:05]: > > > On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 19:44 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > > > I just got reminded that even with the lastest Factory bits, soon > > > > to be openSUSE 13.2, I need to enter my root credentials to change > > > > the timezone. > > > > > > > > This is very disappointing and does not serve us nor our users well. > > > > > > > > I understand this has been addressed for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. > > > > Wyh is openSUSE more paranoid by default than the Enterprise line?? > > > > > > > > Gerald > > > > > > Hi Gerald, > > > > > > Thanks for the pointer... > > > Indeed, I see this was fixed on SLE12: > > > > > > Fri Sep 5 22:52:01 UTC 2014 - <no-public-blame> > > > > > > - Add gnome-control-center-bnc862415-timezone.patch > > > Allow changing timezone without root privs. > > > > > > But this patch was never submitted to the openSUSE community and as a > > > result is not available in the openSUSE packages. > > > > > > Other patches I have in openSUSE though that address crashes are missing > > > in SLE12... oh well (well, that crash fix is not so critical for SLE, as > > > it only triggers on i586, which SLE12 is not supporting.. ) > > > > > > We'll probably have to find a 'smarter' way for things like that. > > > > > > I'll see if I can forward port that TZ patch into GNOME 3.14. > > > > Why "patch into GNOME ..."? Seems this *should* be a system attribute > > rather than de specific. The de *should* get it's TZ from the *system*, > > or again one way becomes spaghetti-code :^) > > Don't take it out of context. > > GNOME does take the TZ from the system.. BUT gnome-control-center also > allows you to configure your timezone... and for THIS action, at the > moment, you require the root password, DESPITE the polkit privileges > being ser that a regular user can set the timezone. > > The patch in question does only allow a regular user to perform what > he's allowed to do anyway... nothing more, nothing less. > > Dominique > -- > Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <[email protected]> > Why is it that Policy Kit seems to scarcely work for what it was designed to do?
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