Bug 322394

Summary:	No way to change printer username & password after initial adding of printer.
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] print-manager	Reporter:	NMD <bugsnmd>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugsnmd
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description NMD 2013-07-15 14:45:07 UTC

Hi, I'm using Linux Mint 14 KDE, KDE 4.9.5.

When initially adding a printer within KDE settings it allows you to add a username and password. However, there appears to be no way to modify the username/password for the printer after the initial creation, or to add a username and password to a printer later.

It would be great if something could be implemented to allow changing of these settings later.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the printers control module
2.Click on a previously configured printer and press configure

Actual Results:  
3.There appears to be no way to add/change username and password

Expected Results:  
Username/ password boxes should be available allowing modification.

Comment 1 Daniel Nicoletti 2013-07-15 14:55:33 UTC

The username and password are from your own user or root, not for printers, you change your local user password and the new password will be verified by CUPS too, it all depends on how your distro configured CUPS.

Comment 2 NMD 2013-07-15 15:07:58 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> The username and password are from your own user or root, not for printers,
> you change your local user password and the new password will be verified by
> CUPS too, it all depends on how your distro configured CUPS.

Sorry, maybe I should have been more specific. In some cases users will want to use a different user/pwd for printing over the network - in my case, I am printing from my own laptop over the university network to a university printer, which will only accept my university assigned username and password - which bear no relation to my local user name/pwd.

There is a box in the initial KDE printer setup which allows you to add these username and passwords (Add printer > windows printer via samba, and see under authentication).