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."

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Re:Slow news day?

[Bill_the_Engineer]

You insinuate that somehow his time is more valuable than anybody else's. Also there is push back from the OpenSUSE community that insist they like the current security defaults. Anyway I'm pretty sure he wasted more time writing his little rant than it would have taken to make it where his son could use a printer.

One could speculate that he is just demonstrating the consequences of not taking all of his opinions as gospel and giving it the upmost priority on bug tracker.