Allegedly, on or about 15 May 2016, Javier Perez sent:
How can I allow users to manage printers in FC23? For example if hey
need to pause/resume the printer, right now they need the admin with
the root password to do it. This is a home setting so I do not mind
people doing it (but I do mind having to go to their rescue :) )
On my admittedly older installation, the CUPS documentation suggests
that you ought to be able to do that kind of thing, and I would have
thought the functionality remained.
Referring to:
http://localhost:631/help/policies.html
Part of the cupds.conf file:
#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>
With @OWNER being the owner of the particular print job. They should be
able to load up the CUPS webpage
http://localhost:631/ (or the hostname
of the print server instead of localhost), go to the jobs page, and
manage their print job(s).
As far as I knew, that's how the default installation set things up.
Though things can be more of a managing nightmare when you have a
central CUPS server, and a variety of clients. You're remote users, in
that scenario, and had to manually reconfigure the server to allow
remote management. Probably had to ensure that remote users had the
same account name and IDs set up on the server system, too. So that
remote owner = local owner.
If you're doing it some other way, such as a dedicated printing control
panel in your desktop, then I would have expected that to work without
any fuss.
But again, if you've got a network where people hit print, your program
sends the job to its own local CUPS server, which passes it over to your
central LAN CUPS server, the job has been handed out of your local
control, and needs to be managed through the central server.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
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