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Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account?

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On 2/17/2013 12:09 AM PT, David Empson typed:

> Pausing a print queue on OS X is an operation which can only be done by
> a user account with admin privileges. A standard privilege user should
> not be allowed to pause a print queue, because that would interfere with
> printing from other accounts. An admin user is assumed to have a good
> reason for pausing a print queue and should understand the effect this
> will have on other user accounts.

How did it get paused then if no administrator access?


> Similarly, unpausing a printer is an operation that only an admin user
> should do, because the printer may have been deliberately paused by the
> admin to prevent anyone using a particular printer due to a temporary
> problem (for example).
>
> Standard user accounts in OS X can delete or pause their own individual
> print jobs, just not the entire queue.

If he can pause, then how come no resume? It was his print jobs.


> Having said that, if the computer and and printers are only used by one
> person, it is possible to grant printing system admin rights to certain
> user accounts without giving them full administration of the computer.
>
> You can set this up by logging in as an admin user, running Terminal and
> entering a command in the following form (which is sensitive to case,
> spacing and punctuation):
>
> sudo dscl . -append /Groups/_lpoperator GroupMembership ACCNAME
>
> Subsitute ACCNAME with the short name of the user's account, i.e. their
> home folder name. For example, if their home folder name is "jim"
> (/Users/jim) then the full command would be:
>
> sudo dscl . -append /Groups/_lpoperator GroupMembership jim
>
> (The sudo command will prompt you for a password: enter the password of
> the admin account under which you are logged in.)
>
> If you want to remove this special privilege later, this is the
> corresponding command:
>
> sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/_lpoperator GroupMembership ACCNAME

Thanks. Or maybe I should give him full admin access. Hmm.
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Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-02-17 21:09 +1300
  Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-02-17 06:17 -0800
    Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-02-17 12:30 -0500
      Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2013-02-18 09:17 +1100
      Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-02-17 19:59 -0800
    Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-02-18 08:00 +1300
      Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-02-17 20:03 -0800
        Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-02-18 18:51 +1300
          Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-02-18 14:48 +0000
          Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-03-02 01:15 -0800
            Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-03-03 10:56 +1300
              Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-03-02 21:43 -0800
    Re: Unable to resume a paused printer with a standard Mac OS X level account? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-02-17 19:54 -0800

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