https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827331 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827331#c11 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jsmeix@suse.com Summary|XFCE desktop ask for root |Gnome printing policies are |password to cancel user |not in compliance with CUPS |print jobs. |policies --- Comment #11 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> 2013-07-10 10:35:31 CEST --- My comment#8 was meant to point out that there are different sets of policies used here, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749451#c9 This means: When you do something using CUPS directly (e.g. CUPS command line tools or the CUPS web interface or using applictions that work in full compliance with CUPS), then CUPS' own policies (the so called "CUPS Operation Policies") are used as described in http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.5/policies.html In contrast when you use Gnome printing tools, then the Gnome policies are used "which are defined the policykit way" and the "PolicyKit settings are controlled by polkit-default-privs (and set_polkit_default_privs, that applies the defined policies)", see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749451#c9 and https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749451#c12 As a result you can cancel your own print jobs when using CUPS directly but not when using Gnome printing tools. In the end this issue here is exactly an example of what https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749451#c8 and the subsequent comments there describe in general. Accordingly I change the subject of this issue here from "XFCE desktop ask for root password to cancel user print jobs" to "Gnome printing policies are not in compliance with CUPS policies" Acording to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749451#c9 the difference in policies is intentional because Gnome wants "to offer a consistent way to define policies on the machine". Therefore - from my current point of view - it seems the bug here is no bug but intentional so that it could be closed as "invalid". But I am not involved in Gnome so that I leave it for the Gnome people to actually decide what to do here. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.