F-11: system-config-printer --> windows printer --> "You are not authorized to carry out the requested action"

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 17:08 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 08/08/2009 07:52 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
> > On 08/08/09 12:53, Gregory Hosler wrote:
> >> Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
> >>> On 08/08/09 12:37, Gregory Hosler wrote:
> >
> >> The printer is attached to a windows box. At the time of running system-config-printer,
> >> the windows box is on.
> >>
> >> This used to work just fine on F-10 and earlier...
> 
> I hit this one recently, when I tried to launch s-c-p with sudo from the 
> command line, you have to run it as your normal user and let PolicyKit 
> prompt you for root when it needs it.

To get closer to being on-topic for the list - is it perhaps not ported
to PolicyKit 1.0 yet? Because it doesn't seem to work for me at all in
Rawhide...can't find my network printer (which is really out there), and
doesn't prompt for root privileges (though I'm not sure if it needs them
to look).

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