Debian – Configure localtime. dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

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I'm using this to configure localtime:

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

It is ncurses interface. I'm looking for the way to programming this. Is there true way without user ncurses interface?

How to change localtime by one shell command?

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I'm assuming you want to change the timezone by one shell command.

Do you have timedatectl on your system?

If so:

timedatectl status will show your current settings.

timedatectl list-timezones shows available timezones.

timedatectl set-timezone Antarctica/Mawson sets it.

Note: If the RTC is configured to be in the local time, this will also update the RTC time.

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Try this way:

$ sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Adelaide /etc/localtime

Bash – Switch user in a shell script without entering the password

sudo also allows NOPASSWD on specific entries in the /etc/sudoers configuration, if you can get to that. Like:

userA ALL = (userB) NOPASSWD: ALL

This will give userA full access to userB without password. Should probably only be used if userA can be trusted to lock his screen whenever leaving it …

Alternatively, you can give userA access to only certain scripts. For instance:

userA ALL = (userB) NOPASSWD: /home/userB/scripts-for-userA/

This lets userA run any command in the directory /home/userB/scripts-for-userA/ as userB. It's still only as secure as those commands are, though.

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