Summary: | Printer settings does not prompt for elevated privileges | ||
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Product: | [Plasma] system-config-printer-kde | Reporter: | Ben Cotton <bcotton> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Jonathan Riddell <jr> |
Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | cfeck, gort.klaatu |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Ben Cotton
2010-08-19 00:42:03 UTC
Can you explain what problem this causes? The problem is that non-root users cannot add network printers, even if they have the root password. A workaround exists by using kdesu to launch system-config-printer-kde, but it would be better for users (especially inexperienced users) to be prompted for the root password when needed. Other components of systemsettings do this already. I also experience this issue, on Fedora 14 (KDE 4.5 I think), 15, and Slackware 13.37 (KDE 4.6) I circumvent it by using the web browser interface to CUPS, which does prompt for authentication. "system-config-printer-kde" is no longer maintained and has been replaced with "Print Manager" since KDE 4.10. The new version is a C++ rewrite of the old Python version, and may still lack some features or have some bugs. If this or another issue still needs to be addressed in KDE 4.10 or newer, please add a comment, or report it for "Print Manager". |