<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>So the root of th issue is clearer now in terms of what must be changed so<br>that the initial use of cups by masses is easy. If we edited
cupsd.conf to<br>remove the prompts for passwords all together but left the access to<br>localhost only - that would side step the security issue and still leave<br>all the functions as they are via the web interface.</blockquote>
<div><br> </div><br></div>This has been discussed recently on ubuntu-devel. I think the decision remained that<br>by default the web interface of CUPS is disabled entirely, not just for non-root. This is<br>an ubuntu wide decision we will not (cannot) change it for xubuntu even if we don't have
<br>a printer gui.<br>But getting around that as you documented is a solution.<br><br>Jani<br>