On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Michael Hannon wrote:

> Greetings.  We recently just updated (via a clean install) a server to
> SL 5.2, x86_64.  The system had previously had a number of print queues,
> but in the interest of getting home at a finite time on the day of the
> upgrade, we set up only the queue for the printer that is most heavily
> used.
>
> I don't recall the details, but I certainly don't remember that there
> was anything extraordinary about the process of setting up the one print
> queue.
>
> Today we attempted to revisit the issue of the print queues.  To do so,
> we logged in as root at the console, typed startx, and then ran
> system-config-printer (both from a terminal window and by choosing it
> from the menu).
>
> In both cases we get a pop-up message that tells us:
>
>    Not authorized
>
>    The password may be incorrect, or the server may be configured
>    to deny remote administration.
>
> Hmmm.  I don't know which password would be incorrect.  And I don't
> understand the "remote" part.  We're logged in as "root" when this
> happens, and we're logged in from the console.

I'm wondering whether it is an X security issue:
can you run xterm in the terminal window ?


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