CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized

[Michael Sweet]

angelb at bugarin.us wrote:
 > ...
> I have 1.2b2 installed and am now trying to add a new printer queue
> to test with. Upon doing so, the printer never gets added and the
> error_log is filled with "CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized".

Please file a bug report on this - it shouldn't be doing this
anymore...

     http://www.cups.org/str.php

> ...
> Really strange. I added my user id into the "adm" group and then
 > I was able to create the printer. My Location directives is "lp"
 > for printers, admin, classes and jobs.

Remember that the location stuff only enforces policies on accessing
the web interface, not for the actual operations themselves.  For
that you need to modify the policy in cupsd.conf or list your "lp"
group in the SystemGroup line.

(this is true even for 1.1.x...)

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