On Sunday 08 January 2006 12:25 am, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 19:04 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Saturday 07 January 2006 06:52 pm, Eric Hines wrote:
Fedora Core (at least up to FC3) defaulted to root having access to CUPS Admin functions. I saw the man page on lppasswd; assuming root (and other superuser) privileges are properly protected, what does SUSE gain by not defaulting root to CUPS Admin functions?
It serves to annoy and confuse us newbies.
And not-so-newbies as well! The official answer as to why it is set up this way can be found here:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/jsmeix_print-einrichten-90.html
Hmm...there seems to be a way to let CUPS admin = root. I'll try that.
I think it would be nice if YaST had a button in the printer section to say "allow printer admin by root". That might be a secure but convenient compromise.
That would work.
As far as I'm concerned, the need for a CUPS admin should be turned off by default. I've already emailed Novell about this and displayed my displeasure at not having the ability to have the same password for CUPS as root on several NG's and forums.
Nothing stops you having the same password. Just enter root and its password into the lppasswd command.
Nope. Doesn't work. On my systems and my mothers 9.2 system, the root and CUPS password are forced to be different. When I tried to use the root password on lppassword, I was denied. -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part