Linus Torvalds blasts openSUSES security policy!

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Linus Torvalds blasts openSUSES security policy!

Postby viking60 » 01 Mar 2012, 11:54

Linus Torvalds has a pragmatic everyday approach to his use of Linux and often states the obvious that has escaped so many a developer.
Now his daughter called him while using openSUSE at school and needed the admin password to add a printer to a laptop.
So here's a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace 'my kids' with 'sales people on the road' if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now

This is clear enough - I get it :-D And as usual I do agree.

I gave OpenSUSE a try, because it worked so well at install-time on the Macbook Air, but I have to say, I've had enough. There is no way in hell I can honestly suggest that to anybody else any more.

"I first spent weeks arguing on a bugzilla that the security policy of requiring the root password for changing the timezone and adding a new wireless network was moronic and wrong

:s

I also like one of the comments:
It's gotta be awesome to have a dad who can fix your problems by ripping the entire industry a new asshole. Your-kids-have-the-greatest-dad-EVAR++

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Re: Linus Torvalds blasts openSUSES security policy!

Postby rolf » 02 Mar 2012, 16:19

Colorful fellow, that Linus Torvalds. :think:


Arch seems to have a pretty substantial representation, at the beginning of the Comments, at least. :-D

It's nice to have the creator of this OS be so publicly transparent. He's very down-to-earth about day-to-day and commercial pragmatics. I'm more in a watch and learn mode, not so much yea or nay. Linux is not Unix. :T
More learned minds can duke out the nuances, afaiac. :berserk2


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