Bug#615493: window manager hook to authorize configuration

[Mark Hedges]

Subject: system-config-printer-udev: window manager hook to authorize configuration
Package: system-config-printer-udev
Version: 1.2.3-3
Severity: wishlist

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If I could set an option for a box to pop up and ask "configure printer?"
with the information it identified to the kernel usb interface to verify,
no one would be able to plug in a bogus usb thing pretending to be my printer, 
to exploit some unknown security bug in usb, cups, hplip, or any that polls
the printer device.  When my laptop closes, the screen locks, which would
let me type my password to have an authentic login while I'm there to plug
in the device.  Can the message bus send confirm/ok dialogs to the pop-up
notices and get an answer back from an authorized & authenticated user?

Mark

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers squeeze-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages system-config-printer-udev depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcups2                1.4.4-7          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libudev0                164-3            libudev shared library
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-16      userspace USB programming library
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-cups             1.9.48-1         Python bindings for CUPS
ii  python-cupshelpers      1.2.3-3          Python utility modules around the 

system-config-printer-udev recommends no packages.

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