user administration right

[Michael Sweet]

Geert wrote:
> im trying to give non root users the ability to do administrator things with the printers in cups (for example starting/stopping, clearing queues etc)
> 
> I found the option to change the policy in the config file with the <limit  disable-printer> option.
> 
> for example
> 
>   <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer>
>     AuthType Basic
>     Require user testcups
>     Require user @SYSTEM
>     Order deny,allow
>   </Limit>
> 
> which gives my user testcups the rights to pause and resume the printer.
> 
> the only problem i have is that when im logged as the testcups user i can still see all the other buttons like "delete printer" which this specific user doesnt have any rights to.
> 
> Is it possible to change this?

No, the web interface doesn't limit the list of buttons to the
allowed operations, since you might re-authenticate as a different
user to do them...

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