Disable polkit auth when changing time and timezone

desperado · 2021-12-06 20:08:50

The system needs to allow all "wheel" group users to change the time and timezone without asking for a password. Is this possible?

hiciu · 2021-12-06 20:23:13

It probably is. Take a look at this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit … ic_actions, figure out which dbus action is responsible for managing date / timezone settings, and so on.

seth · 2021-12-06 21:53:29

Sanity check:
- why do users need to change the time rather than using NTP?
- why do users need to change the *global* timezone (rather than exporting TZ to their shell as they see fit)?

desperado · 2021-12-07 06:05:41

- My bad, I meant timezone alone. I too use NTP with UTC hardware clock.
- I'm using a tray applet (lxqt) to change the time and that seems to change it for the whole system.
I'm changing the time to fool a certain german website into letting me in, among other things.

seth · 2021-12-07 07:34:20

that seems to change it for the whole system.

Check

timedatectl

before and after applying the changes there.

I'm changing the time to fool a certain german website

Öffentlich-rechtlicher Sendeschluß im deutschen Internet… or porn
Assuming the implementation is really so silly to to check the local time of the browser process, you need to export it to the browser what means first of all, you have to close all instances of the browser process and then

export TZ=Australia/Sydney; chromium

Notice that there's also https://chrome.google.com/webstore/sear … zone?hl=de

desperado · 2021-12-07 15:52:51

Can you tell me where polkit.log() writes its output to?

seth · 2021-12-07 17:00:14

polkit writes to the system journal, but again: I don't think that juggling the system timezone is anywhere near necessary. Either changing the timezone ofthe browser will cut it or not at all, because whatever time-discrimination you're trying to circumvent isn't that naively implemented.

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#1 2021-12-06 20:08:50

Disable polkit auth when changing time and timezone

#2 2021-12-06 20:23:13

Re: Disable polkit auth when changing time and timezone

#3 2021-12-06 21:53:29

Re: Disable polkit auth when changing time and timezone

#4 2021-12-07 06:05:41

Re: Disable polkit auth when changing time and timezone

#5 2021-12-07 07:34:20

Re: Disable polkit auth when changing time and timezone

#6 2021-12-07 15:52:51

Re: Disable polkit auth when changing time and timezone

#7 2021-12-07 17:00:14

Re: Disable polkit auth when changing time and timezone

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