https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430513 Juergen Weigert <jw@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Depends on|430510 |357354 -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430513 User jsmeix@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430513#c1 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #1 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2008-10-01 15:13:38 MDT --- The only default way to use this functionality (i.e. any printer admin functionality) is to run it as root so that you can enter the root password because by default only root is allowed to do printer admin tasks. I.e. run hp-toolbox as root. I assume it works this way for you and then it works as designed which makes the bug report invalid for the current HPLIP version. If it does not work as root, reopen the bug report. Of course the current design is not really user friendly but perhaps it is the best possible with the current CUPS: Currently I don't know if the cupsd responds with a meaningful error code when authentication fails so that the application could show a meaningful message too but I guess that because of security no info can be shown at all why it failed and all what can be done is to let the popup reappear. As far as I know the underlying problem is that currently CUPS does not provide a way to query the cupsd which user is allowed to do what so that an application program cannot show meaningful information (e.g. gray-out dialogs for printer admin functionality if the currently logged in user is not allowed to do it). But it would be wrong to show printer admin dialogs only when root runs the application because any normal user could be configured in CUPS to be allowed to do printer admin tasks (via "CUPS operation policies"). But I think it should be at least possible to specify an arbitrary user for the IPP operations with the cupsd so that the application could allow to enter both a user name and a password so that you could enter "root" and its password even when you run the application as normal user. -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430513 User jsmeix@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430513#c4 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|INVALID |UPSTREAM Target Milestone|--- |Future/Later --- Comment #4 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2008-10-06 23:55:20 MDT --- Of course it is a valid bug (see my comment). Of course my resolution setting was wrong. Now it is resolved as UPSTREAM. -- 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.