Linus Torvalds would also vent if he used Fedora (root password for printers)

valent.turkovic at gmail.com valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 14:42:58 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:44 PM, valent.turkovic at gmail.com
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is Administrator type account being asked for root pasword when
> accessing printer settings?
>
> Is there some user group I need to be part of? Do I need to edit some
> system files? Are there some PolicyKit options that need to be edited?
> How?
>
> Here are screenshots for printer dialog and user account:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/184632/printer-root.png
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/184632/user-valent.png
>
> If you know how please share how you managed to do it, because it is
> driving me nuts, 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 in advance,
> Valent.

Hi David,
maybe you can share your insight, if it is a PolicyKit issue you are
the right person to bug, right ;)

Valent.


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