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

[valent.turkovic at gmail.com]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 09:30 +0200, 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
>
> FWIW, a better way of doing print-to-remote-service is being planned
> which requires no special privilege:
>  http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/03/08/session-printing/
>
> (This is no help for print-to-locally-attached-printer though.)
>
> Tim.
> */

OK, but why isn't this easy fix via new policy done, why is it sitting
in bugzilla for over two years?

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