Comment 9 for bug 653132

Tim, I have tried pycups 1.9.59 now. It brings me significantly further but still does not completely fix this issue.

The infinite loop when entering no password or clicking "Cancel" is gone. So one can at least get out of s-c-p again if one has no valid credentials to manipulate print queues.

I have also tried, being on the desktop of the user "test" (see comment #6) running system-config-printer, clicking "Add" and then enter the user name "till" and the appropriate password. In this case the device list gets loaded (printer auto-detection, this did not work before) and I can continue setting up the print queue, but now the problem is at the end of the wizard. When I click on "Apply" I get an error message: "CUPS server error: There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'cups-authorization-canceled'". I can close the wizard only by clicking "Cancel" and the queue does not get created. What I expect is that the authentication in the beginning gets used for the rest of this system-config-printer session.

This behaves the same independent whether cups-pk-helper is installed or not.

I tried also another operation: Still on "test"s desktop I closed system-config-printer and started it again. This time I tried to remove a queue by right-clicking its icon and choosing "Delete" in the menu. After confirming I did not get any login/password dialog but directly the message "CUPS server error: There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'cups-authorization-canceled'".