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Bug#697331: installation-reports: Printer not working / recognised - Fixed



Quoting jswmb01x (jswmb01x@mobistarmail.be):
> 
> Clarification :
> Adding "user1" to the lpadmin group was required to add the printer in CUPS (otherwise after entering the user name and password the operation is "forbidden"), not for printing.


Hmmm, well, then I would say this is cups that changed its behaviour
and made it a requirement to have privleges in order to add a printer,
even "plug n' play" toys. Which makes sense to me. Indeed, even on
Windows, unprivileged users cannot add local printers to the system
(but most Windows users don't notice as they always virtually work as
"root" on their machines).

That makes it less of a requirement to have the first created user in
lpadmin, after more thinking.

This bug could then even be "wontfix".


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