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walterjwhite

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Registered: 2011-05-01

Posts: 207

cups - sudo

Hi all,

I recently modified my system to have no root login whatsoever.  I now cannot modify my printer settings because I cannot login as root.

How can I setup cups to use sudo?

Thanks,

Walter

HeSaid

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From: southwest Florida USA

Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 53

Re: cups - sudo

edit: I removed my comment

Last edited by HeSaid (2011-12-06 16:52:53)

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azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 486

Re: cups - sudo

How To Assign Printing Administration Capabilities To Users

walterjwhite

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Registered: 2011-05-01

Posts: 207

Re: cups - sudo

Hi,

Thanks for your reply - I actually just found the solution as you posted it.  I already have the "SystemGroup" declaration, so I added a new printer admin group to it which include my user.

Thanks,

Walter

macracan

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Registered: 2013-09-18

Posts: 1

Re: cups - sudo

May or not may apply to all cups versions. I'm on 1.3.7. It took too long to figure out the hoops through which the bigwigs @ cups wanted me to jump through. I have sudo on the machine, but no root pwd. How did I add a printer? Edit /etc/cups/printers.conf file and make sure you add a matching ppd in /etc/cups/ppd/. folder. For example:

<DefaultPrinter P1>
Info
Location
DeviceURI socket://a1.b1.c1.d1
State Idle
StateTime 1369860184
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
<DefaultPrinter P2>
Info
Location
DeviceURI socket://a2.b2.c2.d2
State Idle
StateTime 1369860184
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>

and have /etc/cups/ppd/P1.ppd and /etc/cups/ppd/P2.ppd setup according to your printer(s) models. Seems like the namings must match between the printer name in printers.conf and the ppd file.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,354

Re: cups - sudo

Hi macracan, and welcome to Arch.  Your post is relevant, but be aware that you are responding to a two and a half year old thread.  I would not expect a response from the original participants. 

We tend to close old threads that come back to life because Linux changes so fast that new problems and old solutions often muddy the water.  As I said, your post seems okay in that regard, so I'll leave this thread open. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.22.  Your post falls under that third bullet

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walterjwhite

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Registered: 2011-05-01

Posts: 207

Re: cups - sudo

Hi macracan,

Yes, that is another way to do it; however, it is nice to have the option to choose.

Walter