Jeff Vian wrote: >> To me it is just one more piece of evidence >> that whoever wrote this program did not think carefully enough >> about what precisely the program is meant to do. >> > They did think carefully. The present usage handles probably at least > 99+% of all cases. Do you mean that system-config-printer sets up a printer correctly in > 99% of cases? Where do you get your figures from? I have what I take to be a pretty standard system - printer attached to the parallel port on my desktop, and accessed from various laptops and other computers - and none of the printer wizards has _ever_ worked for me on any machine except the desktop itself. The CUPS web interface on port 631 always works, although the documentation is not very good, IMHO. Even the Windows XP wizard works reasonably well. > The present config ensures that anyone running these programs (with > default paths/permissions) has root authority, and makes sure that the > program itself does not have to be SUID root. SUID root was the earlier > configuration, and is a security risk. That seems perfectly sensible to me. But I don't see why it requires you to have two different programs with the same name. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
