On Sunday 08 January 2006 08:25, Dave Howorth wrote:
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.
Indeed. There are several oddities in the SUSE printing setup that suggest it has not been designed for the real world of the everyday Linux desktop (eg replacing the KPrinter setup with the less capable YaST one, not having the ptal service start by default on a reboot even if it was set up by the install process, the CUPS admin user requiring a longer password than the root user so that you can't use the same one for both if you have chosen one for root that is shorter than the one CUPS wants, etc). Any comments you make seem to fall on deaf ears, so I don't suppose there's much point commenting. I just try to work around the printing shortcomings on an otherwise excellent distro. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD