On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:30:38 Johannes Meixner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Feb 29 00:36 Gerald Pfeifer wrote (excerpt):
> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
> >> As for printers... I see the issue being installation of drivers.
> >> If we're setting up a printer which has a driver already installed
> >> on the machine, then no, password should not be required like that.
> >
> > Great, we agree on that.
>
> Of course it is not as easy as you think.
>
> Your current point of view "printer setup on my own machine"
> does not apply in any case.
>
> In corporate environments where an admin maintains the workstations
> it is usually not wanted that users can change how workstations print
> because this can cause printing security issues in the whole network,
> see "print job phishing" at
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_and_SANE_Firewall_settings
openSUSE is not corporate environment but individual desktops, so let's use
sane defaults there.
If the defaults for corporate environments need to be different, then SLES
and SLED can use different defaults - but that doesn't mean openSUSE
should...
Andreas
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