clock riddle

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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:

# for a in settimezone settime configurehwclock ; do
>     polkit-action --action org.gnome.clockapplet.mechanism.$a
> done
action_id:        org.gnome.clockapplet.mechanism.settimezone
description:      Change system time zone
message:          Privileges are required to change the system time zone.
default_any:      no
default_inactive: no
default_active:   auth_self_keep_always
action_id:        org.gnome.clockapplet.mechanism.settime
description:      Change system time
message:          Privileges are required to change the system time.
default_any:      no
default_inactive: no
default_active:   auth_self_keep_always
action_id:        org.gnome.clockapplet.mechanism.configurehwclock
description:      Configure hardware clock
message:          Privileges are required to configure the hardware clock.
default_any:      no
default_inactive: no
default_active:   auth_self_keep_always

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