On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Emanuel Rietveld <codehotter@gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/29/2012 01:15 PM, drago01 wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Neal Becker<ndbecker2@gmail.com>  wrote:
I think he's got a point

http://www.osnews.com/story/25659/Torvalds_requiring_root_password_for_mundane_things_is_quot_moronic_quot_

Yeah but last time we tried this in fedora it got "flamefested" so we
had to revert.

Perhaps a solution is adding a group with the needed permissions and make it really easy to add an account to that group.

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+1 to this.  Many tasks should not require full root permissions to execute. Having a set of groups centered around tasks (install printers, install software, etc.)  would definitely make this simpler.  This method would also be arguably be more secure than sudo as processes don't run with root permission therefore root privileged cannot be gained by exploiting a program.   Another situation where having a group based security would be nice is access to privileged ports.  Try running JBoss as a non-root user on port 80.

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