On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Johannes Meixner wrote:
In corporate environments where an admin maintains the workstations it is usually not wanted that users can change how workstations print because this can cause printing security issues in the whole network, see "print job phishing"
In corporate environments where an admin maintains the workstations, said admins can easily increase whatever security levels she desires to increase. A vanilla openSUSE installation is not exactly most common in such environments. It's a lot more common, as we see every day, in those cases Linus and me are concerned about. (In fact, a couple of SUSE employees contacted me in the last 24 hours indicating "Yes, I do have the root password, but this really has annoyed me all the time.")
Of course long ago I had aready filed a matching FATE request https://features.opensuse.org/307745 but nobody - in particular nobody of the management - cares.
I am sorry your request did not get picked up for openSUSE. As far as
all SUSE products go, indeed I am (Mr. Product) Management. openSUSE is
not a SUSE product, though, and there I am just a lowly contributor like
everyone else. :-) With a bit of influence, admittedly, in suggesting
what SUSE engineering teams contribute to openSUSE, but not in the
sense of classic (product) management.
Gerald
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Dr. Gerald Pfeifer