On śro, Apr 24, 2019 at 8:46 PM, Wolfgang Bauer <wbauer@tmo.at> wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 24. April 2019, 20:09:04 schrieb Stasiek Michalski:
On śro, Apr 24, 2019 at 8:05 PM, Wolfgang Bauer <wbauer@tmo.at> wrote: or run `sudo -E yast --qt`
Sure, or use "su -", xdg-su, kdesu, gnomesu... ;-)
Btw, kdesu can be configured to use sudo instead, in which case it would follow the sudo config which would also allow to ask it the *user* password instead. But I guess that's getting off-topic now.... ;-)
Although, installer's default is also to have root have the same password as user, which makes me question security of that policy ;)
As I see it, that's a compromise to ease the life of "simple" users. Like the default ("easy") polkit settings, that allow users to install updates (not new packages) via PackageKit without entering the root password.
There is that cool concept of "supported" packages/repos in PackageKit that would allow only packages from vendor specified repos to be updated/installed without password, although nobody implemented that stuff for zypp backend.
OTOH, exactly that also can cause confusion if that "simple" user changes their password afterwards.
Personally, I still prefer that strict differentiation between a/the user and root as well though.
Not planning to take that away currently ;) LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org