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--- Begin Message ---Package: cupsys Version: 1.2.12-1 Severity: normal Dear CUPS maintainers, First of all many thanks for your work. I installed Lenny on a computer and chose to not have a root password. Then when the web interface of CUPS asked me to log in, I looked in /usr/share/doc/cupsys, and found this in README.txt: You will be asked for the administration password (root or any other user in the sys/system/root group on your system) when performing any administrative function. This is misleading, as Debian uses lpadmin for this purpose. I think that it would be nice to document this, maybe by patching the README for instance. It would save a bit of time to people facing this problem. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japan
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--- Begin Message ---On Sun 08 Jul 2012 at 16:37:25 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 01:45:48PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > > > > Nowadays cups/README says: > > > > You will be asked for the administration password (root or any other > > user in > > the sys/system/root/admin/lpadmin group on your system) when performing > > any > > administrative function. > > > > Do you think this is intuitive enough, or should Debian patch it to > > say "root or any other user in the lpadmin group"? Maybe it would be > > better to explicitly mention the SystemGroup setting? > > Dear Jonathan, > > it is hard to answer as I do not have the newcomer's point of view anymore. > If > it really works as explained, that the user can be in any of these groups, > then > the explanation is fine. Otherwise, if on Debian the user specifically needs > to be in lpadmin, then I think that extra information would be helpful. As one might guess, upstream's README is trying to cover all bases. The SystemGroup specified in Debian's /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is lpadmin. Also, /usr/share/doc/libcups2/README.Debian.gz has: After installation, CUPS is pretty close to being ready to go. The last step is to add administrative access; the "lpadmin" group has been created and granted administrative rights to CUPS. You may need to add users to this group in order to add printers, modify settings, etc. By default, the root user has been granted this permission, but you should only use the root user on the local system. On this basis I think the essential point in this bug report is addressed. Therefore closing. Regards, Brian.
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