Re: CUPS permissions

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: CUPS permissions
Date	2021-08-26 17:30 +0200
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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.

Thanks for picking up on this; you are completely correct. I did not
check the name of the file 'vigr -s' opens. The OP may not want to
us vigr, so it is important to have the correct file names (/etc/group
and /etc/gshadow).

-- 
Brian.

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CUPS permissions Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-08-25 14:50 +0200
  Re: CUPS permissions Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2021-08-25 18:30 +0200
    Re: CUPS permissions Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-08-25 20:50 +0200
      Re: CUPS permissions Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-25 21:20 +0200
        Re: CUPS permissions Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-08-26 14:10 +0200
          Re: CUPS permissions Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-08-26 14:30 +0200
          Re: CUPS permissions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-26 14:40 +0200
            Re: CUPS permissions Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-26 15:00 +0200
              Re: CUPS permissions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-26 17:20 +0200
              Re: CUPS permissions Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-08-28 16:20 +0200
              Re: CUPS permissions >Fixed Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-08-28 16:40 +0200
                Re: CUPS permissions >Fixed Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-28 21:40 +0200
                Re: CUPS permissions >Fixed Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-28 22:10 +0200
                Re: CUPS permissions >Fixed Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-28 21:40 +0200
          Re: CUPS permissions Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2021-08-26 14:40 +0200
          Re: CUPS permissions Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-08-26 14:50 +0200
  Re: CUPS permissions Keith Bainbridge <keithrboz@gmail.com> - 2021-08-26 01:40 +0200
    Re: CUPS permissions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-26 14:10 +0200
      Re: CUPS permissions Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-08-26 15:20 +0200
        Re: CUPS permissions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-26 16:50 +0200
          Re: CUPS permissions Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-26 17:00 +0200
            Re: CUPS permissions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-26 17:30 +0200
              Re: CUPS permissions Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-26 17:40 +0200
                Re: CUPS permissions "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-08-26 18:50 +0200
                Re: CUPS permissions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-26 21:00 +0200
                Re: CUPS permissions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-26 19:30 +0200
                Re: CUPS permissions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-26 20:20 +0200
                Re: CUPS permissions Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-26 20:30 +0200
                Re: CUPS permissions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-26 21:00 +0200
            Re: CUPS permissions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-26 17:30 +0200

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