Re: [opensuse-gnome] Timezone and printer settings too restrictive by default

2012-02-29 Thread Vincent Untz
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

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Timezone and printer settings too restrictive by default

2012-02-29 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 29 février 2012, à 09:15 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : Le mardi 28 février 2012, à 23:53 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer a écrit : 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

Re: [opensuse-security] Re: [opensuse-gnome] Timezone and printer settings too restrictive by default

2012-02-29 Thread Andreas Jaeger
On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:30:38 Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Feb 29 00:36 Gerald Pfeifer wrote (excerpt): On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: As for printers... I see the issue being installation of drivers. If we're setting up a printer which has a driver already

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Timezone and printer settings too restrictive by default

2012-02-29 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-02-29 06:38, Sankar P wrote: 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. You don't need YaST to change

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Timezone and printer settings too restrictive by default

2012-02-29 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-02-29 03:36, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 03:23 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: However, printer configuration, as that is a hardware thing, is traditionally a task for the administrator, but perhaps something could be devised

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Re: [opensuse-security] Timezone and printer settings too restrictive by default

2012-02-29 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-02-29 10:14, Johannes Meixner wrote: (It is questionable if e.g. the timezone is a system setting or only a user-level preference.) It is both. You can change both settings separately, and each user can have his own different timezone.

[opensuse-gnome] Re: [opensuse-marketing] [Fwd: GNOME.Asia 2012 Official Announcement]

2012-02-29 Thread Max
Dear KK Nundy: Do you live HongKong? Would you help GNOME.Asia 2012? Best regards sakana On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Koushik Kumar Nundy kknu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, On 21 February 2012 01:41, Bryen M Yunashko susero...@bryen.com wrote: Passing along an FYI for anyone

Re: [opensuse-security] Re: [opensuse-gnome] Timezone and printer settings too restrictive by default

2012-02-29 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Johannes Meixner wrote: In corporate environments where an admin maintains the workstations it is usually not wanted that users can change how workstations print because this can cause printing security issues in the whole network, see print job phishing In corporate