On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 23:53 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
Hi there,
Linus vocally complained about this today at https://plus.google.com/u/0/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5 and I verified that running GNOME on openSUSE 12.1, all updates applied, I do need to provide the root password to change the timezone or add a printer.
That is a major usability issue for personas "Daniela" and "significant other", which means it has real life impact on both Linus and myself. :-)
Surprisingly enough, I did not find existing Bugzilla entries, but perhaps those were (incorrectly) closed earlier and I missed them therefore?
In any case, I filed
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749451 Adding a new printer via system-config-printer requires root password
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749453 Changing the timezone via world clock requires root password
Any chance we can get these two resolved quickly?
Thanks! Gerald
I have mixed feelings about it. For the standard non-administrated user, yes these should be easier to do. For the traveler, it should be easy to do, i.e. I shouldn't have to provide system credentials in order to connect to a wifi network at Starbucks nor to change my timezone when traveling. And the time issue isn't just about timezones, but also about changing time itself and/or syncing up to NTP. And from an administrated-machine standpoint, there may be reasons why we don't want our users to fiddle with the clock itself. (e.g. auditing user's behavior on a machine by looking at timestamps.) As for printers... I see the issue being installation of drivers. If we're setting up a printer which has a driver already installed on the machine, then no, password should not be required like that. But if setting up the printer means downloading the driver... then it should be treated the same way as any other software installation which requires system authentication. But in general, the issue seems to be one extreme or the other, I agree. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org