clock riddle

[Michal Jaegermann]

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