[cups.general] anonymous www based job deletion

Helge Blischke H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Mon Dec 6 06:15:19 PST 2004


Erik Thiele wrote:
> 
> hi.
> 
> i want to change the permissions of cups and read all documentation, but
> still have no clue. i have following goal:
> 
> - nobody may add,remove,modify or configure printers apart from root
> - everybody may delete jobs on all printers and from all users
> - everybody may start and stop all printers
> - everybody may print to all printers
> - nobody has to enter passwords in the web interface (apart from root if
> he wants to add,remove,modify printers)
> 
> is there a possible solution? otherwise i will have to write own web
> interface which calls lprm as root.
> 
> i played with AuthType None, but the result is that the error-log sais:
> "" is not allowed to remove job of "erik".
> 
> cya,thx
> Erik

Search for a post by Michael Sweet with subject 
"Re: [cups.general] How to limit CUPS admin?"
in the archives. (if you are not successful, let me know).
It describes what can be done currently.

Helge

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