s-c-p: stupid app or PolicyKit annoyance?

[John Austin]

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 09:05 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 18:24 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > I run system-config-printer as root, and it either hangs
> > forever or tells me I'm not authorized when I want to do
> > something like change printer default options.
> 
> This is due to PolicyKit:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447266
> 
> > I run system-config-printer as normal user and it asks
> > me to give the root password every few seconds (for
> > example, try deleting a printer, then clicking
> > on New to reinstall it from scratch).
> 
> Most operations go through PolicyKit; however, clicking on New requires
> fetching the list of available devices, an operation that previous
> versions of CUPS had allowed without authentication.  There is no
> PolicyKit action to fetch available devices provided by cups-pk-helper,
> so this operation falls back to the IPP method and prompts you for a
> password.
> 
> Here's the open bug against cups-pk-helper that tracks that issue:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506513
> 
> > Or does this have nothing to do with PolicyKit
> > and system-config-printer is merely the most annoying
> > app ever written when it comes to asking for
> > root auth?
> 
> Try removing cups-pk-helper. ;-)  This will cause system-config-printer
> to use IPP authentication for everything.
> 
> Tim.
> */
> 
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After F11 PolicyKit  problems, this made me feel better !

cat /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf
<config version="0.1">                                                                                                                                               
<match user="root|ja">                                                                                                                                               
             <return result="yes"/>                                                                                                                                  
           </match>                                                                                                                                                  
</config>

John

PS I only had a problem with my second install of F11 - the first was fine
I thought I had carried out exactly the same procedure - obviously not !