JP Rosevear wrote: > 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.
Are you talking about setups where you plug in your shiny new USB printer and want it to just work or are you talking about network printers? I was assuming you were talking about the former but I somehow doubt that "hundreds of printers" need to be configured in that scenario ;-) cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE Labs V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
