granting cups admin rights to non-root users

SUSE Product Topics SLES Configure-Administer
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OK, this is probably a dumb (newbie) question but I can’t seem to find
the answer. In SLES 11, how do I give non-root users the rights to
add/modify printers and print jobs? I’ve added the users to a group and
specified that group in the cupsd.conf file and restarted but that
doesn’t seem to be enough.

Thanks

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On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:06:02 GMT
jgosney jgosney@no-mx.forums.novell.com wrote:
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OK, this is probably a dumb (newbie) question but I can’t seem to find
the answer. In SLES 11, how do I give non-root users the rights to
add/modify printers and print jobs? I’ve added the users to a group
and specified that group in the cupsd.conf file and restarted but that
doesn’t seem to be enough.

Thanks

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Hi
This should clarify;
http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L237+T+Q

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop
up 2 days 1:43, 5 users, load average: 0.27, 0.13, 0.14
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 285.05.09

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Hi Malcolm, I already tried those steps. I created a group, added the
users to the group, added that group to the SystemGroup entry in the
cupsd.conf file and restarted cups. Still doesn’t work. What do you
think could be blocking this setting?

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On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:26:02 GMT
jgosney jgosney@no-mx.forums.novell.com wrote:
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Hi Malcolm, I already tried those steps. I created a group, added
the users to the group, added that group to the SystemGroup entry in
the cupsd.conf file and restarted cups. Still doesn’t work. What do
you think could be blocking this setting?

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Hi
You could peruse the pam settings, anything in the logs (/var/log) to
indicate the errors?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop
up 4 days 18:43, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.13, 0.17
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 285.05.09

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I modified my /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to disallow authentication for make changes vía http://localhost:631/
[FONT=Comic Sans MS] # All administration operations require an administrator to authenticate…[/FONT]
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AuthType Default

Require user @SYSTEM 

Order deny,allow
# Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM Order deny,allow [/FONT] It worked for me on openSUSE 12.1
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[QUOTE=altmas5;10161]I modified my /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to disallow authentication for make changes vía http://localhost:631/
[FONT=Comic Sans MS] # All administration operations require an administrator to authenticate…[/FONT]
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AuthType Default

Require user @SYSTEM 

Order deny,allow
# Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM Order deny,allow [/FONT] It worked for me on openSUSE 12.1[/QUOTE]

Hi!

in OpenSuSE 13.1 I tried editing /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
I changed in the TAG
JobPrivateAccess default
for
JobPrivateAccess easy

and it worked!

saludos, Nicolás.

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