Re: cups undocumented deprecation
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 04:26:38AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> The command line tools in cups current debian version are deprecated and
> that deprecation is undocumented. I proved this a few minutes ago by
> setting up my printer using the web interface and set printer options
> after successfully adding the printer. Before I did any of this
> configuration though I erased /var/log/cups/error_log. When I finished
> selecting the printer and setting defaults for the printer using the web
> interface though, I couldn't find /var/log/cups/error_log, it wasn't
> there.
You probably need to restart CUPS for this to be recreated.
> When I had done this using the command line tools though I got
> log entries with UNAUTHORIZED printed next to each of them. All very
> interesting, the command line tools can now probably be removed since
> those apparently no longer work.
All the command-line tools do work, but you may have permissions
problems. For administrative tasks, such as adding and modifying
printers, the user needs to be a member of the lpadmin group.
Normal users also need permission to print; by default all users
should have permission, but if you get an unauthorised error, then
they might be set too strictly. cupsd.conf has a reasonable default
configuration for these settings for a typical system.
Regards,
Roger
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