Problem restricting printeraccess to groups

[Michael Sweet]

Hansa wrote:
> I have a cups server managing aprox 250 printers on several different
> locations and 4-500 users. I need to restrict access on grouplevel to
> the different printers. This only works on a userlevel. Is this a
> known problem? The server is running RedHat AS3

If you are using a recent (>= 1.1.19) version of CUPS, then you can
use the "-u allow:@groupname" option with lpadmin to restrict access
to specific UNIX groups.

See "man lpadmin" for more info...

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