Torvalds:requiring root password for mundane things is moronic

[Emanuel Rietveld]

On 02/29/2012 01:15 PM, drago01 wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Neal Becker<ndbecker2 at 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.