cups admin problem with Ubuntu

James R. Van Zandt jrvz at comcast.net
Tue Jul 4 13:51:08 EDT 2006


Matej Cepl <ceplm at seznam.cz> wrote
>   dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
>   > In cupsd.conf, check SystemGroup. Either change it to a group
>   > that you are in or add yourself to that group. Now your usual
>   > username and password will work.
>
>   I am not sure, how it is in Ubuntu, but in the real Debian the group is
>   lpadmin. Take a look at that file (to check it is so) and then run
>
>   sudo adduser <yourlogin> lpadmin

But existing logins don't acquire membership.  You have to log in
again.

              - Jim Van Zandt



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