Re: CUPS permissions
On Thu 26 Aug 2021 at 10:56:55 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.
I also forgot: after carrying out the corrected procedure, log out and
log back in.
--
Brian.
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