No authentication in Systemsetting -> Printer Configuration
Martin Kho
lists.kho at gmail.com
Thu Oct 22 15:16:18 UTC 2009
> 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
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