On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 09:05 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 18:24 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > I run system-config-printer as root, and it either hangs > > forever or tells me I'm not authorized when I want to do > > something like change printer default options. > > This is due to PolicyKit: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447266 > > > I run system-config-printer as normal user and it asks > > me to give the root password every few seconds (for > > example, try deleting a printer, then clicking > > on New to reinstall it from scratch). > > Most operations go through PolicyKit; however, clicking on New requires > fetching the list of available devices, an operation that previous > versions of CUPS had allowed without authentication. There is no > PolicyKit action to fetch available devices provided by cups-pk-helper, > so this operation falls back to the IPP method and prompts you for a > password. > > Here's the open bug against cups-pk-helper that tracks that issue: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506513 > > > Or does this have nothing to do with PolicyKit > > and system-config-printer is merely the most annoying > > app ever written when it comes to asking for > > root auth? > > Try removing cups-pk-helper. ;-) This will cause system-config-printer > to use IPP authentication for everything. > > Tim. > */ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines After F11 PolicyKit problems, this made me feel better ! cat /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf <config version="0.1"> <match user="root|ja"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </config> John PS I only had a problem with my second install of F11 - the first was fine I thought I had carried out exactly the same procedure - obviously not ! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
