Cannot change printer settings without root access

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:

>  Open your browser and in the address use localhost: 631
>
> You will need to use your password.
>
>
> On 01/10/2015 11:44 AM, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>
> In order to change certain printer settings -- page size, print quality,
> and so on -- I have to be logged in as root on my 14.10 install, running
> KDE 4.14.1. I can't access these settings through any application that I
> want to print with, nor with the system settings dialog. The only way I can
> get to them is to run
>
>  $ sudo systemsettings
>
>  from the command line and change the settings there.
>
>  Anyone know how to fix this?
>
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I've now done the following:

Executed:

$ sudo chown -R <username>:<username> <username>

and

$ sudo usermod -G lpadmin <username>

Neither of these seemed to work.

I've logged in to the CUPS administration screen via localhost:631, but I'm
not sure what I'm doing there.

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