No authentication in Systemsetting -> Printer Configuration

[Martin Kho]

Hi,

In System Settings -> Printer Configuration I tried to change some Options. 
This action needs root access, but no authentication pop up box appears. 
Instead I get:

"There was an error during the CUPS operation:
'client-error-forbidden'."

Using "system-configure-printer" gives an authentication pop up box.

I'm running fedora 11, kde 4.3.1-9 (x86_64)

Anyone else seeing this? Do I miss a package, have something wrongly configured 
or is it just a bug? 

Thanks,

Martin  Kho

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 22 October 2009 12:34:58 Martin Kho wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  In System Settings -> Printer Configuration I tried to change some Options.
>  This action needs root access, but no authentication pop up box appears.
>  Instead I get:
>  
>  "There was an error during the CUPS operation:
> 'client-error-forbidden'."
>  
>  Using "system-configure-printer" gives an authentication pop up box.
>  
>  I'm running fedora 11, kde 4.3.1-9 (x86_64)
>  
>  Anyone else seeing this? Do I miss a package, have something wrongly
>   configured or is it just a bug?
>   
Yes, an oversight, a.k.a. a bug :-)  I believe that it is being dealt with 
upstream.  If you search bugs.kde.org you'll find that there are some related 
ones reported, such as asking for Dolphin to request a root password when it's 
required.  Meanwhile, it's necessary to run systemsettings from a root konsole 
for some jobs.

Anne
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[Martin Kho]

>  On Thursday 22 October 2009 12:34:58 Martin Kho wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > In System Settings -> Printer Configuration I tried to change some
>  > Options. This action needs root access, but no authentication pop up box
>  > appears. Instead I get:
>  >
>  > "There was an error during the CUPS operation:
> 'client-error-forbidden'."
>  >
>  > Using "system-configure-printer" gives an authentication pop up box.
>  >
>  > I'm running fedora 11, kde 4.3.1-9 (x86_64)
>  >
>  > Anyone else seeing this? Do I miss a package, have something wrongly
>  >  configured or is it just a bug?
>  
>  Yes, an oversight, a.k.a. a bug :-)  I believe that it is being dealt with
>  upstream.  If you search bugs.kde.org you'll find that there are some
>   related ones reported, such as asking for Dolphin to request a root
>   password when it's required.  Meanwhile, it's necessary to run
>   systemsettings from a root konsole for some jobs.
>  
>  Anne
>   
Thanks for the info, Anne. I only searched bugzilla.redhat :-)

Martin Kho