From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: When a currently unconfigured USB printer is connected to the system, a popup dialog appears prompting for the selection of a driver. There is no check for authorization. An unprivileged user should not be allowed to create a print queue. Until this problem is corrected, cups-config-daemon should not be run on any system where security of the printer configuration is a concern. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-cups-utils-0.5.2-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn on or connect a currently unconfigured USB printer. Additional info:
I fail to see how this is any different from mounting a disk, burning to a cd or attaching a camera to a computer. Risk is limited and behavior can be modified by a sysadmin.
When you unmount a disk or unplug a camera, the system goes back to its previous state. The added print queue, on the other hand, persists until a system administrator removes it.
Ah, that is a bug.