Re: CUPS admin

"Magnate" <not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"Bill Marcum" <marcumbill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2009-09-22, Magnate <not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,

Grateful for any help diagnosing this problem:

Two users on the system: chrisc and rose. Both are members of group
lpadmin.

The printer (an old Epson Stylus) has a habit of downing tools between
jobs - need to go to CUPS web admin interface (localhost:631) and click
the
green "Start printer" button to restart it - it works fine after that
(until
the next time it downs tools).

When you click the button, up pops a dialog asking for a username and
password. rose's username and password are rejected, yet chrisc's work
fine.

What group is chrisc a member of and not rose?



Is lpadmin the wrong group for cups permissions?? (There is no root user
on
this system - all root commands are done with sudo.)

Thanks in advance,

If you have Gnome, use the system authorization menu in Gnome control
center
to give rose access to printers.

A-ha! Thank you, that sounds like something I need to investigate. Now, as I
mentioned, this machine doesn't have a root user - in my experience this
confuses Gnome terribly, as it likes to ask for the root password for all
sorts of admin/auth things. Is there a "gnome admin" group that I can make
myself a member of to get round this?

Sure it has a root user. It must in order to use sudo.
Just give root a password
(sudo passwd
should probably do it)
I find that attitude of disabling root idiotic. Yes, sudo is handy at
times, but to me it is like cutting off your legs because you might
develope ingrown tonails if you keep your legs.





Thanks again,

CC

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