Re: CUPS permissions
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 03:49:23PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 26 Aug 2021 at 06:18:21 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > It would be useful to have the outputs of
> > >
> > > groups
> > $ groups
> > peter cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev netdev
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > grep SystemGroup /etc/cups/cups-files.conf
> > $ grep SystemGroup /etc/cups/cups-files.conf
> > SystemGroup lpadmin
> > >
> > > from the OP.
>
> Follow Keith Bainbridge's advice and add your user to the lpadmin
> group. Edit /etc/group and /etc/group- to do this. I would use 'vigr'
> and 'vigr -s'.
Near as I can tell, /etc/group- is simply a backup copy of /etc/group
and shouldn't be edited. You might be thinking of /etc/gshadow, which
has something to do with group passwords, which are a thing I have *never*
dealt with in my entire life.
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