Bug 452873

Summary:	system-config-printer does not understand AllowUser/DenyUser directives in printers.conf
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Christoph Szeppek <szeppek>
Component:	system-config-printer	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Christoph Szeppek 2008-06-25 15:05:02 UTC

Description of problem:
cupsd contained in cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.6 understands AllowUser and
DenyUser statements in printers.conf file. When adding AllowUser/DenyUser to my
printers.conf file and running system-config-printer afterwards, the
AllowUser/DenyUser statement will be deleted, if system-config-printer rewrites
the printers.conf file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-printer-0.6.116.10-1.2
cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a AllowUser or DenyUser statement to one of your printers in
/etc/cups/printers.conf (either by running "lpadmin -p <printer_name> -u
[allow|deny]:<user>" or manually editing the printers.conf file)
2. run system-config-printer, select a printer, click edit, then ok (nothing
changed)
3. Exit system-config-printer with "Save" (in order to write the printers.conf file)
  
Actual results:
The previously added AllowUser/DenyUser statement cannot be found in the
printers.conf file.

Expected results:
The AllowUser/DenyUser statement remains in the printers.conf file

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2008-06-27 11:28:32 UTC

This is a design limitation of printconf 0.6.x.  It is not possible to make
changes to printconf-managed printers by any other tool than printconf.

This restriction is not present in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 due to the
printing configuration tool having an entirely new architecture.