KDE Print & Cups user permissions

Michael Goffioul goffioul at imec.be
Fri Jun 13 16:22:47 CEST 2003


> I'm using kde-print with cups and am trying to login
> as a non-root user and give access through kde-print
> to "start/stop queues & qmov" but prevent access to
> "delete printers and stop/start spooling" - Is this
> possible

I'm afraid not. All these operations are done on the same
"admin" CUPS resource. So if you give access to the "admin"
resource to a specific user, he'll be able to perform any
operation that uses that resource.

Michael.

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