Escalation - better desktop printing policy (over two years old issue)

[Marek Kasik]

Hi,

On 06/15/2012 09:30 AM, valent.turkovic at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> Fedora still has quite strict printing policies even if users choose
> to be a part of Administrator group during installation still need to
> input passwords while changing even the minor printer settings (like
> unpausing). This is still an issue on Fedora 16 and 17, is has been in
> bugzilla for over 2 years:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596711
> 
> Why are Administrator users being asked for root pasword when editing
> printer options? There is a fix from Fedora wiki page:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/ConfigurationTool
> 
> Please make this fix permanent and enabled by default in Fedora.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken this is the same issue that Linus Torvalds vented
> regarding same issue on OpenSuse -
> https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5
> 
> Thanks,
> Valent.
> 

I'll review the bug as soon as I'll finish the 2 things I'm working on
right now.

Regards

Marek