Re: cupsd user

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Tom Allison (<tallison@tacocat.net>) wrote:

> How do you set the cups server user to something other than root?
> 
> In order to access the web pages, I have to use my root user/pass.  I
> don't like this and would like to change it to someone else (dedicated
> cups userid?).

>From /etc/cups/cupsd.conf:

# SystemGroup: the group name for "System" (printer administration)
# access.  The default varies depending on the operating system, but
# will be "sys", "system", or "root" (checked for in that order.)
#

SystemGroup lpadmin

Try to add your users to that group.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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