[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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