cups ppd files

[Aaron Konstam]

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.
> 
> 
> 
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>