Bug 271953

Summary: system-config-printer-kde: No "Authentication Required" dialog
Product: [Unmaintained] system-config-printer-kde Reporter: worldhoho
Component: generalAssignee: Jonathan Riddell <jr>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: jonathan.verner, mebus.inbox, michel.ludwig, worldhoho
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: FreeBSD Ports   
OS: FreeBSD   
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Description worldhoho 2011-04-29 04:41:46 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                FreeBSD

The printer I use requires password to access and print. Whenever any user tries to print, they are prompted for a user name and password in a dialog saying "Authentication Required". Entering user names and passwords will allow one to print. 

Unfortunately, I find that there is NO such "Authentication Required" dialog for system-config-printer-kde. So whenever I print from any KDE application(like Ocular, Kile, etc), it fails.  Very annoying. 

On the other hand, I can print from any non-KDE applications like firefox, thunderbird, etc, because they all have the "Authentication Required" dialog.

I have another machine running Ubuntu(Gnome) on which the printer works flawlessly. It usually shows a dialog like this: 
http://cyberelk.net/tim/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/authentication-dialog.png




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to print from any KDE application(like Ocular, Kile, etc) using a network printer which requires password authentication.


Actual Results:  
NO such "Authentication Required" dialog shows up.  Fails to print. 

Expected Results:  
Should show an "Authentication Required" dialog which will allow user to enter password to access the printer.
Comment 1 Mebus 2011-08-01 15:36:38 UTC 
Hallo,

I got the same problem on Fedora 15 with KDE. Maybe anyone can fix this, because it's really annoying.

(I have to use GTK applications to print.)

Mebus
Comment 2 Jonathan Verner 2011-09-15 09:39:19 UTC 
I have the same problem printing to windows shared printers which require authentication. 

I have been able to solve it by configuring the printer uri to contain the username and password, i.e the printer url looks somewhat like this:

smb://DOMAIN\username:password@COMPUTER/PRINTER

However this stores the password in a systemwide plaintext file, which is not
very security friendly :-)
Comment 3 Michel Ludwig 2013-02-21 20:44:12 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 230522 ***