Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/19/2011 01:59 PM, James Knott wrote:
> Nelson Marques wrote:
> > Why is that if is you can configure them on a per/user basis ?
>
> An employee goes on a business trip and has to use WiFi to set up a VPN back to the 
> corporate network.  WiFi has to be used because hotels generally do not provide 
> Ethernet.  How does he set up the WiFi connection, at the hotel, if he doesn't have 
> the root password?  Is the company going to send out someone to configure the 
> WiFi?  As I mentioned in another note, I tried to set up a configuration for a 
> single user and guess what?  By default it sets up for a single user and still 
> requires root password to do so.  There is no method that I could see that allowed 
> configuration of a WiFi connection without root password.

As a point of reference, the US Department of Defense has a regulation
mandating that any military service member, Federal civil servant, or
anyone under contract to DoD who has or requires administrative access
to any computer, server, or network appliance has to meet education
requirements and possess industry recognized certifications.  This rule
has been on the books since 2005 or so, but is only now being strictly
enforced.  The requirements are rather onerous and so regular users
don't want to meet the requirements and are thusly having their root
privileges removed.

Many DoD folks use Linux, and if a user-level system, particularly a laptop,
requires root authentication, expect this to be be a boon to Microsoft.

<http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/857001m.pdf>

Regards,
Lew

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