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 ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna