Le mardi 28 février 2012, à 23:53 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer a écrit : > 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
This is because of the default polkit policies in openSUSE: the org.opensuse.cupspkhelper.mechanism.* actions require the root password. Note that I wrote cups-pk-helper in order to enable adding a printer without root password... > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749453 > Changing the timezone via world clock requires root password This one is actually GNOME's fault: the new design of GNOME means that when you can change the timezone, you can also change the time. And we don't want to allow the latter without root password. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+ow...@opensuse.org
