[cups.development] Authorization Granularity
Jerome Alet
alet at librelogiciel.com
Tue Dec 21 10:08:07 PST 2004
Good evening,
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:12:17PM -0500, Anonymous wrote:
>
> In our situation we need to give certain users ability to start
> and stop printers, and possibly to accept or reject jobs, without
> them being able to modify the configuration. (This mainly arises
> because the system sometimes places a printer in stop status, and
> the support personnel are not on-site and not guaranteed to be
> instantly available).
>
> Please can you consider designing this into a future release.
> That is at least separate out operational tasks from configurational
> tasks, but preferably allowing authorisation by lists of commands
> granted to lists of users and/or groups, to provide full flexibility.
what about using sudo whenever possible, for example to allow
cupsenable and cupsdisable commands to particular users
hth
Jerome Alet
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