[ale] cups printer admin

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 17:24 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I want to create a login for a printeradmin in cups. This user would be
> able to do nothing more than cancel all print jobs for any printer
> controlled by the localhost:631 cups access process.
> 
> Cups documentation could use some work...
> 
> I have edited the cupsd.conf file to add the user to the policy section
> for admin stuff (cancel-job etc).
> 
> I have added the user with lppasswd.
> 
> I've added the user with useradd.
> 
> I have set AuthType to Basic, Digest, BasicDigest, etc
> 
> Is cups just broken?
> 
> Google turns up loads of people who can't make it do what they want as
> well but no pointers to solutions that I have seen...

And to partially reply to myself...

If is <shudder> add the printeradmin user to the root group, it works.

This is very VERY bad.
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