[cups.general] Why can only root user lpmove print jobs?

Kurt Pfeifle k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Tue Aug 7 22:37:17 PDT 2007


Bernard Barton wrote:
> In my cupsd.conf file I have the following line:
> 
> 
> SystemGroup sys, root, ops
> 
> 
> The user oper is in the ops group.  However, the user oper could not
> lpmove files from one printer to another.  I had to do this as root.
> How do I configure cupsd.conf to allow the user oper belonging to
> the group ops to be able to lpmove all print jobs?

CUPS assigns rights to do print and admin related operations more finely
grained than just "certain groups are allowed to do everything".

Have a look at the documentation about the "operation policies" as well.
See

    http://localhost:631/help/policies.html


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