[kde-linux] System -> Printing doesn't work.

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 21 09:47:58 UTC 2009


On Saturday 21 February 2009 08:57:13 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> I have almost finished installing CUPS and now I wonder if it was
> necessary, but I will have to figure that out after this issue.
>
> When I start: "System -> Printing" the dialog opens with the options
> grayed out.  I know exactly what the problem is, it needs to run with SU
> privilege.  But, how do I do this?  I would expect that the KDESU dialog
> would pop up and ask me for the root password before it opens but this
> doesn't happen.  Since this is a Python program, I can't simply set the
> SUID permission bit.  I presume that others have this working so that
> there must be a way to do it.
>
Open localhost:631 in a browser.  Since you are about to set up printers you 
need root authority, so you must go to the Administration page to give the 
password.  I think you will find it fairly self-explanatory after that.

Once set up you can control jobs from there if you need to (something 
unprintable, sent to the wrong queue and blocking things, for instance) but 
you will not need to very often.  On the few occasions that you need root 
authority you will be asked for the password.

Anne
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