How to allow normal users to adjust date and time?

Toby Kelsey toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com
Wed Jan 11 20:25:19 UTC 2006


neil woolford wrote:
> I'd like to be able to allow (selected) normal users to set the time and
> date of their systems, using the gui interface accessed by
> right-clicking the clock and selecting Adjust Date & Time.
> 
> By default this is only accessible by users with administrative
> privileges, I don't want to give all these privileges to normal users
> just so that they can adjust and synchronise the time on their machines.
> 
> How should I go about doing this, ideally without departing too far from
> the default install?
> 
> Neil

try 'man sudoers'.

You could instead run ntpd to synchronise the clocks automatically.

Toby




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