I am trying to set up a new computer with Fedora 17 and KDE both working ok. I have plugged in an HP laser USB printer, and am trying to set it up. I enter system settings -> printers from the KDE menu, and am asked for a user name and password for authentication. There I get stuck, nothing I can remember gets me any further.I have no problem with su or sudo from the terminal window, nor with the printer on my previous machine with Fedora 12.Please can anyone help me out of this impasse?Incidentally, although this is on a dual boot machine, with grub, I have no file grub.cfg or anything like it.
In Fedora 17 kde I don't know user or password to authenticate printer installation
fedora;authentication
Thank you for the suggestions. I had a lot of other troubles with that installation, all due to my own misunderstandings, so, in the end I backed up the little work I had already done, and simply re-installed Linux Fedora 17, I made a careful note of the passwords I used, and have done one Authentication all right so far; not the printer, I haven't got to that yet.Other issues with grub are still there, but they will be the subject of another question.I take the point about Fedora 17, but I happened to have the installation DVD handy, and: if it works (as I am sure it will) don't fix it is my guiding principle. 