On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 13:01 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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. The CUPS web interface has a Documentation tab that gives you more documentation than you could ever use. On the oter hand system-config-printer simply does not work reliably under CUPS. > > 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 > -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
