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

Stroller linux.luser at myrealbox.com
Fri Oct 27 21:10:03 PDT 2006


On 28 Oct 2006, at 02:03, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Stroller wrote:
>> ...
>> 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...

Thanks!

Stroller.





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