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#1 2017-08-22 11:10:01
- ahura
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Printer only appears when document is opened with sudo
I recently added a network printer as described in the CUPS Wiki.
When I navigated to http://localhost:631/, I could not get access to the 'administration' tab using my own user credentials and had to use root. Following this, my newly added printer only appears in printing dialogs if the document viewer was opened with sudo.
How do I go about fixing this so I can print without opening documents as root?
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#2 2017-08-22 11:16:56
- Slithery
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Re: Printer only appears when document is opened with sudo
When I navigated to http://localhost:631/, I could not get access to the 'administration' tab using my own user credentials and had to use root.
This is completely normal.
Following this, my newly added printer only appears in printing dialogs if the document viewer was opened with sudo.
This isn't.
Go back to the CUPS web interface and check the permissions for the printer are correct.
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#3 2017-08-22 11:45:26
- ahura
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Re: Printer only appears when document is opened with sudo
Thanks, but how? If I click the printer under the 'printers' tab, I can only seem to edit settings like whether to print dual-page, etc.
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#4 2017-08-22 12:21:36
- mrunion
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Re: Printer only appears when document is opened with sudo
Go back in as root and check the permissions.
Matt
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#5 2017-08-22 12:27:49
- ahura
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Re: Printer only appears when document is opened with sudo
It's not clear to me how to do this. I can find the printer under the 'printers' tab, and select 'allowed users' from the drop-down menu that reads 'administration.' I can write my user name in that field and click 'set allowed users', but this changes nothing.
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