[gentoo-user] cups - print job owner

[gentoo-user] cups - print job owner

[Joseph]

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. 
 
-- 
Joseph

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

[Mick]

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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.

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Regards,
Mick

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

[Joseph]

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

[gentoo-user] cups - print job owner

[Joseph]

Does anybody know which file control print job ownership?

I have: 
drwx--x---  3 root     lp    /var/spool/cups
-rw------- 1 root lp    910 May 17 06:52 c02986
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 391367 May 17 06:51 d02986-001

so being in "lp" group doesn't help me at all, as only root can delete the print job.

-- 
Joseph

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

[Joseph]

On 05/17/13 07:32, Joseph wrote:
>Does anybody know which file control print job ownership?
>
>I have:
>drwx--x---  3 root     lp    /var/spool/cups
>-rw------- 1 root lp    910 May 17 06:52 c02986
>-rw-r----- 1 root lp 391367 May 17 06:51 d02986-001
>
>so being in "lp" group doesn't help me at all, as only root can delete the print job.
>
>-- 
>Joseph

I think it is a bug in cups based on red-hat forum posting:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432029

Additional info:
the permissions within the package as per spec are:
%dir %attr(0755,root,sys) /etc/cups
%dir %attr(1700,root,sys) /var/spool/cups/tmp

Those lines should probably read:

%dir %attr(0775,root,sys) /etc/cups
%dir %attr(1770,root,sys) /var/spool/cups/tmp

as cups-1.1.22rc1/scheduler/conf.c:497
  chmod(ServerRoot, 0775);
and conf.c:551:
    chmod(TempDir, 01770);

-- 
Joseph