Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Adobe PPD files Message-ID: <1989Dec5.165758.26789@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1025@maxim.erbe.se> <17380@rpp386.cactus.org> <1989Dec3.024451.11099@utzoo.uucp> <17399@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 89 16:57:58 GMT In article jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU writes: >I think a better solution is to lobby the application developers to add >an option to their programs that allow a user to specify the exitserver >password. This allows the shared environments to be carefully >controlled, while allowing people to get useful stuff printed (assuming >they either know the password or know how to find the SysOp who does). They know how to find me, and the answer to such a question will be: "exactly *why* does this application need the password?". Since the usual output from these applications is cryptic in the extreme, the answer will probably be "because", and my reply will be "forget it". If application developers want to be told the password, first they are going to have to tell me exactly what they are going to do with it. (Having sufficiently readable output to facilitate confirming their claims would also be a bonus.) Not trusting users is a relatively minor issue; the big problem is that we don't trust applications developers not to screw up our shared printer, given the impressive displays of incompetence they put on in other matters. -- Mars can wait: we've barely | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology started exploring the Moon. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu