Adding printers vs Xubuntu philosphy

[Collins Richey]

I don't know what the difference might be with Xubuntu, but I'm
running Kdapper with all the gnome stuff installed as well. On my
system (current maintenance as of a few hours ago), when I access
http://localhost:631, I'm given access to all menus (add printer, for
example) without a password prompt.

Have you actually tried that, and do you get different results on
Xubuntu? I haven't done anything to change permissions, and it just
works.