Re: [gentoo-user] cups - print job owner

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

On 05/07/13 21:46, Mick wrote:
>On Tuesday 07 May 2013 16:48:42 Joseph wrote:
>> When I submit print job to my network printer cups display on the web-page:
>>
>> ▼ ID ▼	Name	User		Size		Pages
>> Brother-2907  	Unknown  	Withheld  	42k
>>
>> So I can not delete the print job as I'm not the owner.
>> How to control the ownership of the print job?
>>
>> In cupsd.conf I have:
>> ...
>>   # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel or authenticate a job...
>>   <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
>>     Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
>>     Order deny,allow
>>   </Limit>
>> ...
>>
>> I could make a short-cat and add:
>> Allow from my_ip_address
>>
>> but I don't think this is a good solution.
>
>Try something like this:
>
>$ cat /etc/group | grep lp
>lp:x:7:lp,michael
>lpadmin:x:106:
>
>That should allow you to cancel print jobs, otherwise sudo cancel.
>
>-- 
>Regards,
>Mick

That is what I have:

$ cat /etc/group | grep lp
lp:x:7:lp,joseph
lpadmin:x:106:

I still can not delete print job unless I'm root.

-- 
Joseph