Re: Could not adjust time

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

Also, how is an ordinary user supposed to click on anything and change
the system time. Root shouldn't be running X to be able to change the
system time. Unless the thing the user clicks on links to some su
system.

At least in KDE, if you right click on the clock there is an option
to "Adjust Date & Time". It then invokes kde su.

Note that this kind of problem arises very often. For example a user starts
a KDE session and wants to configure a printer (which can only be done by
root). Even then it is solved in a similar fashion.

raju
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