[cups.general] Anonymous User Job Control

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Nov 4 04:52:29 PST 2005


Johannes Meixner wrote:
> 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

Keep in mind that the default CUPS configuration will map an
unauthenticated root user to "remroot" when you use the "-h" option...

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