Public bug reported: The main reason why Debian/Ubuntu does not enable automatic printer detection in cups by default is that there is no way to tell apart locally configured (and thus trusted) printers from those which got detected automatically (and thus open the possibility of luring someone into printing confidential material onto a rogue network printer).
E. g. I have a locally configured "local_ps" printer, and an ML-1610 which comes through cups browsing detection. The print dialog currently looks like this: http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/screenshots/print_dialog_gtk.png the printers look exactly the same, I have no way to tell which ones can be considered trusted. It would be great to separate the locally configured from the remotely detected ones: |_| Print to file | |=| HP DeskJet 123 | room 10 | |=| Samsung Foo Color | | Automatically detected remote printers: |=| ML-1610 | dagobert | They can be told apart with the CUPS_PRINTER_DISCOVERED flag (see cups/cups.h). ** Affects: gtk Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) Importance: Wishlist Status: Triaged ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #566782 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566782 ** Also affects: gtk via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566782 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist Status: New => Triaged -- Please separate autodetected from locally configured printers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314408 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
