Description of problem: When called from a command line by typing 'system-config-printer' on a non-root account it asks for a root password - as expected. But when picked up from a menu under "System Settings->Printing" it does not ask anything, allows to change settings and even applies them! Truly amazing!!! Actually this does not seem to be config-printer property. It seems that anything under "System Settings" can be picked up from a menu, no passwords asked, although this is not the case when called directly. I just managed to accidentally switch system-wide, but from a non-root account, a keybord layout to Belgian one (which made things "interesting" for a while :-). I do not know what is really responsible for that surprise so I will leave the original assignation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-printer-0.6.111-1 How reproducible: Always
This is not a bug -- the password you typed it cached, as should be made clear by the 'keys' icon in the systray on the panel. Changing component to pam as this obviously isn't clear enough.
The problem beeing that I **first** tried pickup up "Printing" setup from a menu and only amazed that nothing wants a password I typed 'system-config-printer' on a command line and then was asked. So I am not sure what is really cached and from when. Now I have to search how to turn that off.
It's the '-gui' variants of the commands that use that cache (it's a pam setting). You had typed in the root password before selecting it from the menu.
> You had typed in the root password before selecting it from the menu. Sigh! That is exactly the problem. I did not. I did that **later** when trying to run things from a terminal window on a graphic desktop (and which gave me '-gui' variants too). So what was possibly cached and from when I have no idea. Definitely not from the current session and on the top of that I changed a root password when trying things which did not seem to have any effect on an observed behaviour. Things are getting more and more scary with every comment. Caching root passwords by a complicated GUI systems strikes me as something that only some "usability expert" could invent.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112419 ***