CUPS admin for users

[Ted Potter]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 4:55 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 9/29/05, A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru <A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >
> > [mailto:redhat-install-list-
> >
> > > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:21 AM
> > > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > > Subject: CUPS admin for users
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >    We have an FC2 machine that has our printer attached. For whatever
> > > reason the printer is sometimes turned off or out of paper when jobs
> > > are sent to it. The jobs don't print and the printer queue backs up.
> > > The problem is that to start the printer again seems to take root
> > > access.
> > >
> > >    Is there are way to give specific users the ability to restart the
> > > printer? Best case I'd like them to run the web CUPS GUI and just go
> > > to the admin page, click on start and be allowed to get the printer
> > > going again.
> > >
> > >    I'm thinking maybe there's a group that could be created to do
> > > this? I could add these users to that group and then they could work
> > > when I'm not here?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> >
> > You can define the access control configuration in the cupsd.conf file
> > inside the 'Location' sections. Access rights can be defined for the
> > administrative interface as a whole (Location /), administrative
> > functions (Location /admin), printer configuration (Location /printers),
> > etc.
> >  Put the users who need the ability to start the printer into some
> > group, and define the access rights for the Locations which they should
> > be able to access:
> > Set  the 'AuthClass' to  'Group';
> > Set  the 'AuthGroupName' to the name of the group containing the users
> > with the rights to restart the printer.
> >
> > This will give members of the specified group the ability to use
> > web-based CUPS administrative interface (or specific Locations of that
> > interface).
> > You should also check that other configuration options (such as 'Allow
> > from'/'Deny from') in the CUPS configuration file does not prevent users
> > from accessing administrative interface from their computers.
> >
> > Alexey Fadyushin.
> > Brainbench MVP for Linux.
> > http://www.brainbench.com
>
> Thanks Alexey,
>    These instructions seem pretty straight forward, but I'm really
> fuzzy tonight. How do I restart the cups daemon after editing the
> cupsd.conf file without rebooting. I'm tired/
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

/etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart

or turn on the tube and grab a brew depending....  :-)




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