JP Rosevear wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:58 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote: [...] > > Your info is too terse for me. > > I still do not understand the end-user's situation. > > Please do not misunderstand me - I don't want to do nitpicking. > > But I need to understand the whole picture from the end-user's point > > of view - otherwise whatever nice-looking implementation may not > > solve the actual end-user problem. > > The situtation is the end user doesn't want to type in a password to do > simple operations.
Sorry, but I don't understand you here. Can you please elaborate these operations to me? What are they? [...] > > From my point of view all we may need is a nice GUI to set up > > those policies in cupsd.conf - e.g. an enhancement of the CUPS > > web-interface, see on a CUPS 1.2 system > > http://localhost:631/admin > > "Server" > > Yes, quite possibly with the policy system above. I might rather see a > single yast module that is a starting point for various configurations > of this type of options, ie something like: > > [ ] Primary user can mount removable media > [ ] All users can mount removable media > [ ] Primary user can add and remove printers > [ ] All users can add and remove printers > [ ] Primary user can install, update and remove software > [ ] All users can install, update and remove software I think the comparision isn't very good. Removing media / updating software happens more recently than to add/remove printers. The spooling mechanism of print jobs (even printing to a printer, even not plugged in) is an important feature which is not comparable with the other two situations. > Where the primary user is the first user you create. Ideally we'd be > able to keep this hidden and have a 'Home User' vs 'Traditional Unix > Permissions' option or something. (I'm also not sure this is actually a > Yast module, but it will do for now as an example). This would lead > into a nice system for things like basic parental controls. I agree with the intention, but I'm unhappy with the qualification of "primary user". This is not applicable when setting up a server. Regards, Klaus. -- Klaus Singvogel SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 90409 Nuernberg Phone: +49 (0) 911 740530 Germany GnuPG-Key-ID: 1024R/5068792D 1994-06-27 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
