On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 09:30 +0200, valent.turkovic(a)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.
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