Printing privileges

On 10/21/05, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
[snip]
>  - Restrict printing to a group "printing" and allow members of this
>    group to cancel their own print jobs. This allows greater
>    flexibility for privilege management, but breaks upgrades.
>
>    This does not affect the primary user, so we might get away with
>    mentioning this in an upgrade note.
>
>  - Allow all users to cancel their own print jobs.
>
> I did not yet investigate what is necessary to achieve either
> solution, I like to collect opinions first.
>
[snip]

Of the two I'd say all users should be able to cancel their own print
jobs. It just seems silly to think that you're allowed to waste
ink/paper printing but not allowed to cancel your print jobs and save
some ink/paper.

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Travis Watkins
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