On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 09:30 +0200, valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx 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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