On Thursday 19 August 2004 15:04, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Hi all! > > My parents have the problem that the printer sometimes stops itself for > various reasons. It is easy enough to restart it with the KDE print > system, just go "Start Printer" (or something like that). The problem > is, it asks for password, and unfortunately, it will only accept the > root password. I'm not going to give them root access, (the terrible > mess they would do with a root password...), but they shouldn't have to > call me every time the printer stops... > > Instead, I'd like to allow all local users to restart the printer if it > stops, but I haven't find anything concrete in the docs to do that, and > while I found it easy enough to set the printer up with CUPS, it isn't > actually very transparent when you need to do something a bit more out > of the ordinary... :-) > > Anybody know how to do this?
Yes; configure the "admin" location in cupsd.conf to allow valid users, then they will be able to use their user accounts to do that ... <Location /admin> AuthType Basic (or Digest) AuthClass User ... etc </admin> Though this opens up a whole new can of worms ... However, the real problem is why do they have to restart the printer? -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ( t | i | m | @ | i | t | . | k | p | t | . | c | c ) \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ GPG key fingerprint = 1DEE CD9B 4808 F608 FBBF DC21 2807 D7D3 09CA 85BF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
