Now that you mention it, I remember seeing that same situation. You are
right; the ps would not work except for root. I well imagine that many
packages are broken by that higher security like SAMBA or CUPS. Yes, I had
strange permissions problems with SAMBA when I raised the security level to
To be fair, the changes made at level 4 and 5 are pretty reasonable for
a machine with untrusted local users, which is why the text in the
installer is the problem. The installer text makes it look like
untrusted users coming from the network are the main issue, which is BS.
Level 3, shorewall,
Here is another FYI:
I set up CUPS service on a server running LM 9.0. The security level was
Standard. The CUPS admin on the client-side workstation saw the remote
printer. All was ok. I could print from my workstation (LM 8.1) to the
server-side remote printer via CUPS my network.
So, I
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 20:05, Tom wrote:
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According to the Mandrake Center, a security level of Higher is best for
servers. I found that a very high security level BREAKS CUPS remote (via
network) printing. So, a compromise is in order
The text accompanying the MCC and installer
