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: Klaus.Singvogel@SuSE.de 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: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org