Bug 507881 - system-config-printer authorization failure when launched as root [from CLI]
Summary: system-config-printer authorization failure when launched as root [from CLI]
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 447266
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-printer
Version: 11
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-24 15:52 UTC by Todd Sayers
Modified: 2009-06-24 20:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-06-24 20:49:55 UTC
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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 ***
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