On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:42:04AM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote: > Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > And the fact that it even works for a non-root and > > without any password got me floored. > > You may have input your root password before, so /usr/sbin/userhelper > remembers it for a certain time. Hm, that "certain time" would have to be some weeks. How long is that memory in 'userhelper'? Seems to be way too long. In any case if I tried at that time to check this possibility and activated printing configuration from "Other" submenu I was promptly asked for a root password. So in this case it looks that it was already forgotten. In case you wonder I hit "Cancel" instead of giving a password. I wonder if "remembering" a root password anywhere even for a few minutes is worth possible screwups and aggravations. If you cannot type it then you obviously do not have a business messing around with system settings. Looks to me like a huge security hole. This is a "rawhide, hack-and-scratch" installation and I mostly torture it from a root account. Non-root logins exist only for test purposes. :-) Michal