[cups.general] Web admin access for a group (non-root)

[Michael Sweet]

Stroller wrote:
> 
> On 27 Oct 2006, at 20:01, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>> ...
>>> With CUPS 1.2.5, how can I allow a group of users or at least one
>>> (artificial) non-root user to access cups via
>>> http://localhost:631/admin
>> ...
>> Edit the cupsd.conf file (through the web interface if you like) and
>> add a line reading:
>>
>>      SystemGroup yourgroupnamehere
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Interesting that you should say this. I had this same problem myself 
> last week & worked the solution out for myself.
> 
> On my distro CUPS came shipped thus:
>    $ grep ^SystemGroup /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>    SystemGroup lp
>    $
> 
> Consequently, the only thing to do was to add the user to the "lp" group 
> with `sudo gpasswd -a stroller lp`. I know this because it's still in my 
> bash history. ;D
> 
> Does CUPS not come with SystemGroup set from the factory, or have my 
> distro added this for me?

CUPS does have a default group, but it is often "sys", "system", or
"root", which are also often used for other admin tasks...

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