Allowing non-root users to administer CUPS in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
- How to add printer from unprivileged users using Web interface
- How to configure a CUPS serverfor non-admin account
- I have created a user
cupsadminand put the user into thecupsadmingroup in Linux. I would like the usercupsadminto only stop, start printers and cancel any jobs, nothing else, using the browser. - I'm attempting to restrict access for a group to only allow clearing of print queues and enabling/disabling printers.
- How to make cupsdisable and cupsenable executable for non-root users
- users cannot use
cupsenable/cupsdisableanymore. We're getting "cupsdisable: Operation failed: client-error-forbidden"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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