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Torvalds Calls OpenSUSE Security 'Too Intrusive'
jfruh writes "The balance between security and ease of use is always a tricky one to strike, and Linux distros tend to err on the side of caution. But no less a luminary than Linus Torvalds thinks openSUSE has gone too far. When his kid needed to call from school for the root password just so he could add a printer to a laptop, that's when Linus decided things had gone off the rails."
If I understand correctly this in effect would be giving that user root priviledges. I think his complaint was that an ordinary task like adding a printer required that level of priviledge, not that it was inconvinient to do. It sounded like he wanted to administer his childs laptop without giving them free reign over it.
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You don't. The whole point of sudo is that it gives you fine-grained control over the privileges of each user.
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Back in the day postscript didn't exist.
"lp0" stands for "Line Printer 0" -- you know, 132 columns, tractor feed, green-and-white-striped paper, massive clattering mechanical wheels spinning.
Now GET OFF MY LAWN!
Go in to the linux box you supposedly own and type 'man 5 sudoers'. You can specify which programs a user can run as root with fine grained controls that only allow specific users or specific groups to run only specific programs. It is not an all or nothing tool even if a majority of lazy sysadmins use it that way. If it didn't have that level control, there would be no point in using it over /bin/su.