Till Kamppeter wrote: > The user account created as the first one on the system (or accounts > created as privileged accounts) are in the group "lpadmin" (see > /etc/group). They can do CUPS administration without password. They can > call commands like system-config-printer or lpadmin without sudo. Check > whether the desired accounts are in the lpadmin group. In the web > interface of CUPS (http://localhost:631/) these users use their own user > names and passwords. > Thanks. That's it. I didn't realize that cups was using the lpadmin group. I also assumed that the user tool added the user to the correct groups.
Maybe there should be another bug report "users-admin fails to add new admin user to lpadmin group" I think "Administer the system" should include membership in lpadmin. -jim -- cups denied access to /etc/shadow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152061 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
