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Re:Solaris 11 has the security solution Linus wants for Desk... by zokier on Monday March 26, 2012 @09:03AM (#3756429)
I read the rant (again) and imho it seems like sudo could very well be used as a solution to his problems ("need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings"). From my point of view it seems like the real issue is bad default configuration for sudo (or an alternative system).
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Re:Solaris 11 has the security solution Linus wants for Desk... by mvip on Monday March 26, 2012 @09:25AM (#3756539)
The problem isn't that Linus isn't aware of sudo (of course he is), but a stupid implementation in of the printer tool in OpenSUSE.
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Re:Solaris 11 has the security solution Linus wants for Desk... by sciurus on Monday March 26, 2012 @12:28PM (#3757392)
Agreed. Does openSUSE use PolicyKit for CUPS like Fedora does, or does it depend on lpadmin group membership?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CupsPolicyKitIntegrat...

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