From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011111 Description of problem: printconf-gui can be run as user - in this case it asks for the password. However, it should run the browser as the original user - root permissions should only be used when required. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): printconf-gui-0.3.52-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. close all browsers 2. run printconf-gui as user 3. enter root password 4. create a new driver if there is none 5. click "edit" on the toolbar 6. select "driver" tab 7. click "printer notes" 8. click on the link to http://www.linuxprinting.org/ Actual Results: Browser (Mozilla in my case) is run as root Expected Results: Browser should be run as user who started printconf-gui Additional info: It may be a good idea to have an additional safety net in htmlview and use "su $USER" there, but the real problem is in printconf-gui that should use root permissions only when needed.
This is an issue with the gnome.help module. If there is not already a browser running, it runs the browser as root. If there is one, it passes the request to the browser. I cannot 'fix' this problem. If you really care, open a bug against gnome help.