FC11: Unable to add a printer

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jun 10 13:00:13 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 12:12 +0200, Marco Guazzone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Mike Chambers<mike at miketc.net> wrote:
> >
> > Try running it as regular user and just give root's password when it
> > needs extra privileges and see if that works.
> >
> 
> Wow!! It works!!
> 
> What the hell is it?
> 
> Honestly, I've only tried from the root account and from a normal user
> account by issuing the command with sudo.
> 
> Following your tip the root password is asked two times:
> 1. When I press the New button
> 2. When I press the Apply button.
> 
> Do you know if a bug report has been already submitted?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> -- Marco
> 
That is swort of thee way system-config-printer has worked for years.
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