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Bug#444836: marked as done (cupsys: Readme says use sys, Debian uses lpadmin)

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regarding cupsys: Readme says use sys, Debian uses lpadmin
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.12-1
Severity: normal

Dear CUPS maintainers,

First of all many thanks for your work.

I installed Lenny on a computer and chose to not have a root password.
Then when the web interface of CUPS asked me to log in, I looked in
/usr/share/doc/cupsys, and found this in README.txt:

    You will be asked for the administration password (root or
    any other user in the sys/system/root group on your system)
    when performing any administrative function.

This is misleading, as Debian uses lpadmin for this purpose. I think
that it would be nice to document this, maybe by patching the README for
instance. It would save a bit of time to people facing this problem.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Wako, Saitama, Japan

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--- Begin Message --- 
On Sun 08 Jul 2012 at 16:37:25 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:

> Le Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 01:45:48PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder a écrit :
> > 
> > Nowadays cups/README says:
> > 
> >     You will be asked for the administration password (root or any other user in
> >     the sys/system/root/admin/lpadmin group on your system) when performing any
> >     administrative function.
> > 
> > Do you think this is intuitive enough, or should Debian patch it to
> > say "root or any other user in the lpadmin group"?  Maybe it would be
> > better to explicitly mention the SystemGroup setting?
> 
> Dear Jonathan,
> 
> it is hard to answer as I do not have the newcomer's point of view anymore.  If
> it really works as explained, that the user can be in any of these groups, then
> the explanation is fine.  Otherwise, if on Debian the user specifically needs
> to be in lpadmin, then I think that extra information would be helpful.

As one might guess, upstream's README is trying to cover all bases. The
SystemGroup specified in Debian's /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is lpadmin. Also,
/usr/share/doc/libcups2/README.Debian.gz has:

   After installation, CUPS is pretty close to being ready to go.  The
   last step is to add administrative access; the "lpadmin" group has
   been created and granted administrative rights to CUPS.  You may need
   to add users to this group in order to add printers, modify settings,
   etc.  By default, the root user has been granted this permission, but
   you should only use the root user on the local system.

On this basis I think the essential point in this bug report is addressed.
Therefore closing.

Regards,

Brian.

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