Security Note On Configuring Smb Printers; Disabling Gnome Desktop Features - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual

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10.10 Security Note on Configuring
Windows network shares are also referred to as Samba or SMB shares. When you
configure a printer on an SMB share, you must enter a username and password for the
print queue.
The username and password are stored as unencrypted text in the /etc/opt/gnome/
cups/printers.conf file. This file has read-only permissions for users with root
privileges, so any user with root privileges can read the username and password for the
print queue.
To reduce the impact of possible security violations, make sure that the username and
password required to access the print queue is used only for the print queue. This ensures
that any possible security violation is restricted to unauthorized use of the print queue.
10.11 Disabling GNOME Desktop
The GNOME Desktop includes features you can use to restrict access to certain of its
functions. These disable (or lockdown) features let you restrict the actions that users
can perform on a computer. For example, you might want to prevent command line
operations on a computer that is for public use at a trade show.
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Contains image thumbnails for the user. The image thumbnails
are used in the file manager. The file manager contains a prefer-
ence that the user can select to stop generation of thumbnail im-
ages.
Contains screensaver configuration data and screensaver preference
data.
SMB Printers
Features