[cups.general] Anonymous User Job Control

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Fri Nov 4 04:35:51 PST 2005


Hello,

On Nov 4 07:11 ajg112 at ohm.york.ac.uk wrote (shortened):
> ... allow anyone to cancel jobs, independent of who the job is owned by.

Via command line it is easy, see "man cancel": Use the '-u' option
to fake the user "root" who is allowed to cancel any job:
cancel -u root job-id
Or for a job on a remote CUPS server use:
cancel -h remote-server-name -u root job-id-on-remote-server

Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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