On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:29 +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> JP Rosevear wrote:
> > One good use case we've seen with customers is that they don't want to
> > give out the root password because that would enable users to do
> > anything they want like update packages.
> 
> What specific part of printer configuration should a user be able to
> do without authentication? Demanding that users must be able to
> "configure printers" without knowing the root password is too coarse
> grained. AFAICS the YaST2 printer module for example offers to
> reconfigure the firewall and to install additional packages when
> needed also as part of printer configuration.

Adding printers.  You can get large setups with dozens or hundreds of
printers.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Novell, Inc.

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