Print Administrator/Image Capture issue

Same issue here. Not sure what is causing it. *nudge*

I have the same issue here too, and haven't been able to find any details on how to resolve the problem.

I have the same issue.

Image Capture Extension is a background service that runs on login. It was present with 10.6 and still present with 10.7. In testing I thought that the service would not start without a scanner/printer connected to the Mac. But after resetting the printing system to remove all devices from Print & Scan the service is still present, probably in case you connect another image peripheral such as a camera.

As to why your Mac's are requiring you to authenticate for this service to start is an unknown. With a standard user account, the service shows that account as being the owner - not the system or admin. So I'm not sure what happened with your Lion install.

Since there is a mention of the print administrators group, which is lpadmin, you could try adding the standard account to this group to see if that stops the message. Open Terminal and type;

dseditgroup -o edit -u admin_name -p -a user_name -t user _lpadmin

The command "dseditgroup" adds the user_name to a group (in this case, _lpadmin). And admin_name is the name of your administrator's account.

This worked for me. I did it, restarted and did not get the request. Just found the post before I did it. Thanks.

Worked for me as well. Thanks.

Thanks. Excellent work.

Tell me, could this be changed via GUI? Where does the service reside?

Thanks again,

To see the service on 10.7.2 I found that I needed to start Image Capture. This was not the case back in September when I posted the other reply, which I believe was 10.7.0. So don't know if 10.7.2 stopped this service from starting at login as I found then.

Anyway, with Image Capture open and the service running, a sample showed that it resides in;

/System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Image Capture Extension.app/Contents/MacOS/Image Capture

As to the ability to change via the GUI, you may be able to do this via Directory Utility, which resides in /System/Library/CoreServices, but I haven't tried it. The workaround I gave was originally based on this Apple KB article, but looking at the article now it shows that Apple has removed the Terminal information. Any reason why you would prefer to make the change via GUI?

Just curious, PAHU. I had already corrected the issue per your solution. Anda again, thanks.

This isn't exactly a solution if we don't want to allow administrative rights to other users.....has anyone else found a way to make this stop happening?

What I've found that seems to work so far in my limited testing (one machine only; I'll deploy it to my other machines today) is by opening the Get Info window for the app and changing the priveleges for the everyone group to Read & Write, as in the image attached. Yes, it's likely not a good idea, but it solved my problem and didn't touch printing.

Well I'm batting 0 for 2 as neither the dseditgroup nor the change permissions worked.

The Apple KB document provided no insights.

Any other ideas?

What I have done so far:

• Repair Permissions
• Add users to lpadmin via dseditgroup
• Change permissions on Image Capture Extension.app in \system\library\image capture\support to Read-Write
• Delete al Image Capture plist files
• NVRAM refresh (on advice from Apple)
• Empty Cache
• Reload Canon scanner software
• Reload OS (on advice from Apple)

No change. The only thing tha makes this message go away is to change my user from standard to admin.

I wish I could find documentation on the complete removal of my scanner software as I'd like to try a fresh install while as a standard user. I installed it as an admin, hence (I believe) the origin of the problem.

EUREKA!!!

I have found it (for those who don't speak ancient Greek).

library/image capture/devices/Canon IJScanner2.app set Sharing & Permissions for admin to Read & Write from Read Only

Thanks. That seems to have solved the problem for me.