Package: gnome-cups-manager Version: 0.31-3+b1 Severity: important I could be missing something import here, but as far as I can tell gnome-cups-manager privilege escalation is completely broken.
Here's what I tried: 1.) Start from System->Admin->Printing menu in gnome. Double-click "New Printer". It fails silently. 2.) Start from command line to see if I'm missing messages. Nope. Fails silently. 3.) Look at the menus. Under "Edit"?????? there's an item called "Become Administrator", so I try that. Double-click "New Printer". It fails silently, so I close the "Printers" window. But wait... as soon as I close the "Printers" window the add printer dialog appears. That I completely don't understand. 4.) After all this, I played around with it. If I run "sudo gnome-cups-manager" from the command line it works. So, I think this is a problem specifically with gksudo? I should also mention that I have a completely sudo based system. There is no root password, so there's a chance that all of this works when the default gksu behavior is su rather than sudo. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager depends on: ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-1+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcomerr2 1.40.8-2 common error description library ii libcupsys2 1.3.7-5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 2.22.1-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomecups1.0-1 0.2.3-2 GNOME library for CUPS interaction ii libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2 0.31-3+b1 UI extensions to libgnomecups ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-2 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgnutls26 2.2.3~rc-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii liborbit2 1:2.14.12-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager recommends: ii gksu 2.0.0-5 graphical frontend to su -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]