Bug#527983: gnome-system-tools: time-admin can't unlock in some cases.(consequences: ??date/time applet become useless)

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Sun, 10 May 2009, piersont wrote:
>  If you try to change the current time system with the date/time 
> gnome-applet you click-right on the applet and click on "change 
> time/date". After that you enter the root password => time-admin is run 
> but you can't unlock it.

I can't reproduce it that way. When I right-click on the clock applet, a
first window is displayed (without requiring root rights) that lets me
selects a new time and only when I click on a confirmation button does it
ask me for the root password.

ii  gnome-panel     2.24.3-1+b1
ii  gnome-system-to 2.22.1-4

>  When time-admin is run as root, you can't unlock it.

I can reproduce this by starting time-admin directly on the
command line with "sudo time-admin". Everything is greyed and you can't do
anything useful.

> So I think a probable consequence: date/time applet in gnome-pannel 
> become useless.

It's not useless (it displays the time)... but it's less useful for sure.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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