On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 03:04 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
FWIW, upstream KDE requires root authentication to set the current time, and in fact one usage (the one usage? I haven't found others so far) of KAuth in KDE 4.4 will be to use PolicyKit to prompt for the root password (KDE 4.3 uses kdesu there). So now we also have inconsistent system policies, with one tool explicitly prompting for root and another one not doing it. :-(
If you are using 2 different policies to do the same thing you are doing something very wrong, you should use the same exact policy both for KDE and GNOME and any other program that allows any non-root-user to change the time on the computer.
Simo.