NetInfoMgr -- could this be right?

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From: Dick Silbar
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 15:51

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If I remember what actually happened yesterday (just after I hosed the
printcap for my local_printer), I saw the following (unexpected)
behavior in the NetInfoManager App.  It appears that one can delete
entries from the 'printers' domain (and perhaps other domains?) 
WITHOUT having to give the root password.

To modify values, etc., does require root permission (it will ask
for root password if you launch NetInfoMgr as some ordinary user).

Can this opportunity to delete printers possibly be correct?  Or, have 
I just a bad memory of what actually happened?

   Dick Silbar

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