Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (883 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 24 mai 2012, à 10:01 +0200, Andreas Jaeger a écrit :
> On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 15:09:11 Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le mercredi 23 mai 2012, à 15:01 +0200, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
> > > On Tuesday, 2012-05-22 at 14:48 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > > We've collected a couple of use cases for the administration of a
> > > > local system at:
> > > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Security_use_cases
> > > >
> > > > For each use case we added a short security evaluation but in most
> > > > cases don't give a recommendation on what to do.
> > >
> > > I see that timezone is mentioned there, and an ellaborate solution
> > > described. However, in gnome 2 (I'm using 11.4) changing the
> > > timezone is just a single click on the clock. A SINGLE CLICK! I just
> > > change location (once several locations are defined) and done.
> >
> > You realize this was working with polkit, right? We had this properly
> > configured to not require authentication, after considering the
> > security implication. That means we did the work Andreas is pushing
> > here, but only for the timezone use case.
> >
> > (The fact that it doesn't work in GNOME 3 is really just a bug, see
> > patch at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646185)
>
> And a still unfixed bug. Is this fixed for openSUSE 12.2?

Sorry, forgot to reply. Not yet fixed, but we should take my patch. Will
do it.

Vincent

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