> > On a side note, this problem would be a little less severe if I could > > restart the printer without being root. Can anyone provide a hint for > > that? > > use sudo perhaps? >
At the risk of making a fool of myself (because I've never actually used sudo), I don't think that applies. In my case, anyone can browse to http://localhost:631/ and see things. You click "Printers" and it shows the printer to be "Stopped". So you click "Start Printer" and the browser pops up with a username/password prompt. The only account that seems to work for this is root's. Not only is this annoying, it doesn't seem Linux-like to collect the root password in such a way. Is there a group that I'm supposed to add users to so they can admin CUPS? Anyhoo, I've now officially hijacked the thread. Remember, the original poster was really looking for a solution to why CUPS stopped the printer in the first place. -- Arran -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
