non-shared default "fault"

Posted Feb 27, 2004 12:38 UTC (Fri) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)
In reply to: Hmm by Ross
Parent article: The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story (catb.org)

I think it worth consideration that if CUPS /did/ share printers by default, it'd be a significant security issue.

That aside, I must confess that I've found printing under Linux and in fact other UNIXes to be a nightmare of badly documented and quirky software. Of course, other OSes don't seem enough better. Windows gains from having vendor-supplied drivers and an interface designed to do simple things easily - but becomes awful as soon as you need to get something not-so-obvious done. MacOS - nice interface, too bad about the backend - especially lpr printing.

non-shared default "fault"

Posted Feb 27, 2004 18:46 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

It would definitely be a security issue if printers were shared by
default. But it doesn't help much if users don't realize that their
printers aren't shared by default, and why. If sharing your printer is a
security concern, then there needs to be guidance as to how to maintain
configuration with acceptable security while getting what you want to
work.