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Kevin Lucas wrote: > Hi all > > I am helping a friend remotely, to add a printer to his new ubuntu > system. He logs in as a "real user" then presses the Administration > printing and Add New printer gets asked for Authorization and gives any > of his two passwords (user or root) and gets a not authorised to run > this program message. > > He tries to log in as root but is not allowed on the desktop. (you can > su - in a terminal ok though). > > I got him to find the command from the desktop to run the add printer > dialogue as root but it won't run (exits straight away). > > any ideas? > > I thought this would just work but I feel he has done something to mess > up the user groups as there is no Dialogue to administer users either? > Strange, it shouldn't require root permissions to add a printer. If he tries to use things like package manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager) which ask for your password, does his user password work for this? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html