Dear Shachar, Thanks for this clean and convincing model.
> As for printer drivers, and services at large - there is a major > question here of whether we wish Wine services to be able to server > non-wine processes. If the answer is "yes", as is probably the case with > an Adobe PDF printer driver, or with a winmodem's driver, root must > install them. You mean Administrator here, right? I still think Administrator != root. If e.g. CUPS passes PDF data to a wine printer driver acting as a filter, I don't see why this filter would need to run as root. The winmodem is different because it requires hardware access. > If the answer is "no", then there is no breaking of the model. With the > directory structure as defined today, each user can install it, claiming > full admin rights over the loca directory structure. Of course, the new > adobe's printer driver only serves his programs. Yes, both approaches can actually coexist on the same machine. Great! Now someone just needs to start implementing security handling in Wine... Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:Martin.Wilck@;Fujitsu-Siemens.com D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy
