Printing with CUPS

[Clive Menzies]

On (07/11/06 10:53), Alistair Crust wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 17:11 +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > 
> > You need to add cupsys to the shadow group and then you'll be able to
> > use the web inteface.  Add yourself to the lpadmin group.  And in
> > cupsd.conf there is an option to allow administration from IP ranges.
> 
> Will this bypass the need for secure http. I have heard of doing this
> before but was always a bit nervous about doing so.

As long as your local network is behind a firewall, the risk is pretty
low; users need to be added to lpadmin to get to the printers.

> I have already included the allow directive for the machines I want
> access from as detail in my post.
> 
> Allow from.my.network.ip
> 
> Later on I may include :
> 
> Allow from.my.network.address/network-mask
> 
> If all else fails with the other options I may try this, but I'll post
> my results anyhow.
> 
> Thanks for you reply

No Problem :)

Regards

Clive

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