time-admin error: "Could not authenticate"
Leo Cacciari
leo.cacciari at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 10:16:17 UTC 2008
Il giorno lun, 04/08/2008 alle 23.06 -0700, Colin Brace ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently installed 8.04 on a new laptop in a different time zone; now that
> I am home, I need to change the TZ, but time-admin won't "unlock"; after
> about twenty seconds it displays a dialog box saying: "Could not
> authenticate".
>
> It looks like this bug was reported and fixed:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/183804
>
> In the meantime, are there any workarounds? For some reason running
> time-admin from gksudo doesn't work either.
>
> TIA
>
Hi,
you could edit by hand (using your preferred editor through sudo) the
file /etc/timezone which contains the time zone name.
By the way, the *right* way to edit a system file using sudo is to do,
in a terminal
EDITOR=your preferred editor here
export EDITOR
sudo -e path/to/file
The first two line could be added to your ~/.bashrc
Enjoy
--
Leo Cacciari
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