Cups default user and group for non-mac machines

[chandrashekar]

> Hi,
>
> Running cups on non-mac machine where user and group creation is blocked say example you cant create "lp" and "lpadmin" user/group. In those kind of scenario if i want my cups to run properly, I would like to run as root user/group, If i change the below parameters in config.h will the cups work ? Please explain me about why explicit lp and lpadmin user/group creation is maintained in cups.
>
> #define CUPS_DEFAULT_USER "root"
> #define CUPS_DEFAULT_GROUP "root"
> #define CUPS_DEFAULT_SYSTEM_GROUPS "root"
> #define CUPS_DEFAULT_PRINTOPERATOR_AUTH "@SYSTEM"
>
> Regards,
> chandrashekar
>
>
>

Because of the above issue what will happen is /var/spool/cups/ files will turn to root.nobody as the user/group. so I guess this is the reason why I am not able to get the print from cups on a non-mac machine. please provide me information on the same.