https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796055
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796055#c24
--- Comment #24 from Michael Catanzaro 2013-03-28 15:28:01 UTC ---
The problem is that gnome-settings-daemon doesn't provide any finegrained
polkit access to datetime settings - it's either permission to change
everything datetime-related, or permission to change none. The special
timezone-only permission was provided by timedated. If you want to be able to
change the timezone without authentication we will have to (a) patch 12.2/12.3
gnome-settings-daemon timezone portion to respect the timedated policy instead
of its own, or (b) adjust the current patch to use timedated for timezone
switching and gnome-settings-daemon only for NTP, or (c) drop the current patch
and write a new one where g-c-c does the NTP switch itself. I think (a) would
probably be easiest... just that won't be useful in the long term, because this
patch never made it into GNOME:Factory. systemd 198 provides a CanNTP property
which GNOME 3.8 checks, so the patch isn't needed anymore. In Factory you
should currently be able to change timezone without authentication.
The long term problems are:
* the NTP toggle will be insensitive unless something changes, since CanNTP
ought to return false, since there's no NTP unit (Bug #803644).
* we really need to rebase/upstream the finegrained-tz-polkit patch.
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