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What is this about Sudo? "This might make using openSUSE easier for newcomers but, as an old-timer who appreciates the permissions system of security, I don't find it an improvement" This is implying that sudo is a new, insecure tool!!!! If It is so insecure, why has it been around on ultra-secure UNIX systems for over 15 years. In the days of desktop systems for families, where everyone uses the same account (and these are the systems openSUSE is aiming for), It makes things much simpler. I myself am a die-hard LINUX/UNIX user and have several machines that only I use and have only one account. It is very nice to have the safety of a normal account and the privileges of a superuser on one account. It also is nice to allow several users to have administrative privileges. Don't get me wrong, there are other ways of setting things up, Mandriva has a nice system requiring you to type in the root password every time you open a system tool and I like that on my single-user systems. Sudo just allows you to have multiple administrative passwords.

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