[Portland] RE: [Desktop_printing] Portland tool: xdg-su (Was:
Roleof CUPS and error handling)
Michael Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Tue Apr 4 15:02:07 PDT 2006
Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> On 4 April 2006 09:46, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> On MacOS X (and I'm using it as the example here, because I think
>> Apple "got it right"), the authorization dialog functions as both
>> sudo and su, allowing the user to enter a different username if
>> the current account does not have admin privileges.
>
> And something like this would neatly useful in a lot of places across a
> working system:
>
> - 10-day-blocked screensaver unblocking by admin (yes, I know that there are
> workarounds but...)
> - cups job management with user authentication and admin superceding.
Important to note: CUPS has supported this since v1.0...
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