On Thu 26 Aug 2021 at 10:56:55 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 03:49:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 26 Aug 2021 at 06:18:21 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > It would be useful to have the outputs of > > > > > > > > groups > > > $ groups > > > peter cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev netdev > > > > > > > > and > > > > > > > > grep SystemGroup /etc/cups/cups-files.conf > > > $ grep SystemGroup /etc/cups/cups-files.conf > > > SystemGroup lpadmin > > > > > > > > from the OP. > > > > Follow Keith Bainbridge's advice and add your user to the lpadmin > > group. Edit /etc/group and /etc/group- to do this. I would use 'vigr' > > and 'vigr -s'. > > Near as I can tell, /etc/group- is simply a backup copy of /etc/group > and shouldn't be edited. You might be thinking of /etc/gshadow, which > has something to do with group passwords, which are a thing I have *never* > dealt with in my entire life.
I also forgot: after carrying out the corrected procedure, log out and log back in. -- Brian.
