On Tuesday 05 August 2003 7:41 am, Leon Brooks honored me with this
communique:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:43, FACORAT Fabrice wrote:
> > Le mar 05/08/2003 à 02:41, Leon Brooks a écrit :
> >> The one task which my wife needs a root password to do is
> >> printer management. If it were possible to avert this OOtB, that
> >> would be good.
> >
> > sudo
> > but it's true that for example just to clean & align inkjet head
> > printers u need raw access to the device, so root privileges. And
> > sudo may not be always the solution.
>
> True, especially when the problem is tinkering with the printer settings
> in CUPS through the browser. Yes, I can add authentication to let her
> do that, but how is J Random MSCE to know that?
>
> Cheers; Leon
Well, in my experience, "J. Random MSCE" is overpaid and underinformed, even
about Windows. I sure as shootin' wouldn't trust him/her to do *anything*
involving Linux or Unix.
For example, the resident "expert" where I work has his MSCE, but is widely
known as the *last* person you want to call to solve any kind of Windows
problems. He can't even install software in such a way that it is usable. We
call him "nimrod" (when we are trying very hard to be polite). Then we ring
up one of the non-MSCE admins to fix our broken boxen. I swear, he costs us
more in down-time than he earns. Of course, I'm a contract PC board designer,
so I earn even more than he does. Plus I've been using Windows since he was
in short pants.
To be fair, it isn't the MSCE that makes these nimrods dangerous; it is the
fact that their supervisors think that the MSCE makes them more knowledgeable
than the guys who have many years of real-life experience.
Jay
("Recovering Windows hacker")
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
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