On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:56 +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > 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 ;-)
Network printers, I should have actually listed that explicitly in use case 2) as well. -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
