[ale] Linux Distributions

Michael B. Trausch fd0man at gmail.com
Thu May 19 14:43:28 EDT 2005


Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> I got another one for "the experts"... Adding a printer.  Why on gods
> green earth should someone have to enter a second (su) password to add a
> printer that they just plugged into a USB port?    Again, if the users
> account is UID=0 then this issue doesn't exist.
> 

Then again, if you use CUPS, you don't need to use sudo to set it up,
you could just use the web interface and be on your merry way...

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