CUPS Security...

[Andrew McCall]

Russ Fineman wrote:
> Andrew McCall wrote:
 >>
>>At the moment I have to use my root username and password to administer
>>the printers on the systems CUPS is running on - this is the same no
>>matter what OS CUPS is running on.
>>
>>How can I set it so there is a "Printer Administrator" that has access
>>to administer the printers, but nothing else?
> 
> If you look at the man page for lppasswd you can delete an administrator and
> add a new one. That should do what you want if I'm not mistaken.

I may be being a little dumb here, but I don't understand how can I 
delete the "root" account?

I haven't set any administrators up at all, and have just been logging 
in with the root username and password!

Thanks,

Andrew McCall