Bug 507881

Summary:	system-config-printer authorization failure when launched as root [from CLI]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Todd Sayers <tscoltrane>
Component:	system-config-printer	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	twaugh
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Description Todd Sayers 2009-06-24 15:52:01 UTC

Description of problem:
Authorization fails when launching `system-config-printer` as root (from a bash prompt).  When launched as an unprivileged user, the utility prompts for the root password and works as expected.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

system-config-printer-1.1.7-4.fc11.i586


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. In runlevel 5, open a terminal
2. su - 
3. system-config-printer
4. failure comes when adding a new printer
  
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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2009-06-24 20:49:55 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 447266 ***