Feature changed by: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) Feature #313287, revision 8 Title: Allow printer add and modification to users openSUSE Distribution: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Lars Müller (lmuelle) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This had been part of the discussion in this thread http://lists.openSUSE.org/opensuse/2012-02/msg01443.html At the moment you need to be root to add a printer. It would be of huge benefit to corporate, soho, and home users if there is an easy way from inside YaST or while the initial install to allow a non root user to add a printer. Discussion: #1: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) (2012-03-02 16:04:47) As far as I understand it, the request is to have a dialog in YaST to set up what is described at "Allow printer admin tasks for a normal user" in http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell #2: Martin Seidler (pistazienfresser) (2012-03-17 17:12:34) (reply to #1) A feature like described by Johannes I would vote up (vote with pro). Eventually a possibility to choose this easily would be able to add alternatively/cumulatively in the Security Center of YaST2. But I do not see the sense in giving a user account by default this might. As far as I know printers could be used to harm for example a network. And in addition for many users it is often not an easy and every day task to add a printer to a linux based system. If an administrator does not trust a user - for example his daughter - to know the root password because he do not trust her honesty or her ability to use this might (and to rate her own ability) then I see no probability why the user/daughter should be able and allowed to add a printer. Because of this I vote against this feature described as it is in the moment. Regards Martin #4: Martin Seidler (pistazienfresser) (2012-03-19 09:31:32) (reply to #2) I have read the description of the feature/proposal again - especially "if there is an easy way from inside YaST or while the initial install to allow a non root user to add a printer." So this seem to be a proposal to add a easier to realize option to switch the needed privileges of adding a printer to normal user accounts (and not to change the default security settings). I would like if an option like this would be added. I will change my voting in pro/up. I think an good place would be ether YaST>Security_Center or YaST>Printer or to both if it would be only two GuIs that would effect the same settings (and the change of one would also change the status you see on the other one). So please pardon me about my misunderstanding the meaning of the description. Regards Martin + #5: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) (2012-03-20 09:36:24) (reply to #4) + An "add a easier to realize option to switch the needed privileges of + adding a printer to normal user accounts (and not to change the default + security settings)" is what I like to implement (and what I can + implement) in yast2-printer. + I don't know about YaST-Security_Center. + We should discuss the pros and cons of having option settings available + for the user at serveral places (e.g. yast2-printer and YaST- + Security_Center). This would mean that also several programmers would + have to maintain the feature in several separated sources so that + sooner or later the different sources will become out of sync. #3: Sergio Gabriel (dahool) (2012-03-18 15:28:58) humm, I would say having an special group with privileges to add printers. Don't like the idea to let all non-root users to do this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313287