Allowing users to restart CUPS

[Shawn Pringle]

On 30/11/2011 12:46 PM, Linda wrote:
> I need to allow normal users to restart the cups server. I know I used
> to have this set up years ago with lpr, but I can not remember how I did
> it. Could anyone point me in the right direction.
>          Thanks
>             Linda
> 

You should look at the documentation for sudo.  You can specify what a
user can do with sudo.  So, your admin users can do anything, you can
set sudo to allow normal users to restart the cups server.

I'll assume you know how to do that as root.  The daemon is called
cupsd...  I heard you can use: '/etc/init.d/cupsd restart' to restart.

Shawn Pringle


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