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

[James Richard Tyrer]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 21 February 2009 08:57:13 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
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>  > 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
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>  > 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
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>  > 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.
> 
Been there done that.  However, I consider that I am doing software testing.

The question is whether "System -> Printing" will work or if this is a 
bug that needs to be reported.

-- 
JRT