Allow anyone to start a printer?

[Andrew]

> Andrew wrote:
> > For some reasons, sometimes at our office our printers are stopped (as reported in the CUPS web interface).  So, I have to enter my root password to start the printer.  (Then, there are problems when I'm not around to do it.)
> >
> > Is there a way to automatically restart printers?  Or, is there a way to allow anyone in 192.168.0.x to start any printer without a password?
>
> What version of CUPS are you using?

On the first system (Trustix Secure Linux), cups-1.1.23-7tr.  The second system (Fedora Core 5) was running CUPS 1.1 until yesterday---but now cups-1.2.0-1.1.



Andrew