cups ppd files

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:56 AM +0100 8/27/06, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>> At 2:13 PM +0100 8/26/06, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>  ...
>>>I see I have _two_ versions of system-config-printer
>>>on my laptop, in /usr/bin (which takes priority) and /usr/sbin :
>>>-----------------------------------
>>>[tim at elizabeth ~]$ ls -ls `which system-config-printer`
>>>0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 23 13:10 /usr/bin/system-config-printer ->
>>>consolehelper
>>>[tim at elizabeth ~]$ ls -ls /usr/sbin/system-config-printer
>>>0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 23 13:10 /usr/sbin/system-config-printer ->
>>>printconf
>>>-----------------------------------
>>>Both versions are supplied by the same (recent) system-config-printer rpm.
>>
>> One of them authenticates you first, the other one just executes the tool.
>
>
>Whatever they do, it is crazy to have two different programs
>with the same name.

Which one would you choose?  The one that always brings up the
Authentication dialog, even when run as root, or the one that doesn't
authenticate, so a normal user could never run it?

Would our lives be simpler if root commands had different names from
non-root versions?
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