>>> On 2/29/2012 at 04:23 AM, in message <[email protected]>, Gerald Pfeifer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > Linus vocally complained about this today at > https://plus.google.com/u/0/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5 > and I verified that running GNOME on openSUSE 12.1, all updates applied, > I do need to provide the root password to change the timezone or add > a printer. > > That is a major usability issue for personas "Daniela" and "significant > other", which means it has real life impact on both Linus and myself. :-) > > Surprisingly enough, I did not find existing Bugzilla entries, but > perhaps those were (incorrectly) closed earlier and I missed them > therefore? > > In any case, I filed > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749451 > Adding a new printer via system-config-printer requires root password > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749453 > Changing the timezone via world clock requires root password > > Any chance we can get these two resolved quickly? > > Thanks! > Gerald > > PS: If I may ask for one favor, let's stay focused on meeting our > users' needs rather than flailing on flames (some aspects of which > were just inappropriate).
Disclaimer: Have not used openSUSE for the past two months (due to dayjob requirements) so my data may be obsolete/wrong (not verified) When the time is stored in UTC in the system (yast), we can change the timezone as a non-root user, otherwise we can't (or that is how I remember it). Windows does not store time in UTC and so in multi-boot machines, changing timezone is not possible, as a normal user. This is how I remember this. But I may be wrong and could not verify now. Just check once if time is stored in UTC in yast and then try to see if you can change the timezone. Sankar http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
