Not Authorized error adding printer

Donald Russell fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com
Fri Jun 12 22:15:47 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 15:10, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:03:32 -0700
> Donald Russell wrote:
>
> > I still can't log in as root from the GUI, but that seems to be by
> design...
>
> Correct.  It's not a good idea to do that.  If you really must do that for
> some
> reason (I've never found one, myself) look here:
>
>
> http://www.labtestproject.com/using_linux/step_by_step_how_to_enable_root_login_on_fedora_10
>


Thanks... good to know... I won't be using it though.... I wish the error
message were a little more helpful.... "unable to authenticate" may be
accurate, but it's not helpful. :-)

Something like: "User not authorized for GUI" would have made me feel less
like there was really something wrong. :-)
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