Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (883 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 18:56 -0300, Claudio Freire wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > * "Admin configured server": you need the root password for all
> > > changes
> > >
> > >   ->  basically like in good old times before polkit and friends:
> > >   you'll
> > >
> > >      need to "su -" and then use yast or whatever to change stuff.
>
> This one should allow the admin to grant some users some rights, and
> instead of asking for root password, those users would be asked for
> their own.

That means that dedicated user-account, instead of groups.

And the idea was, that
a) if you are the single user & owner you don't want to be bothered with
the concept of other accounts and certainly not the root-pwd (Linus
variant)

b) in a large company specific roles are assigned to certain users,
Those users should only be troubled with their own pwd, and should never
have access to  neither root-pwd nor root-privileges.

Dedicated accounts with their own pwd are a nightmare for an
organisation.

-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@xxxxxxxxxxxx