So the root of th issue is clearer now in terms of what must be changed so
that the initial use of cups by masses is easy. If we edited cupsd.conf to
remove the prompts for passwords all together but left the access to
localhost only - that would side step the security issue and still leave
all the functions as they are via the web interface.
by default the web interface of CUPS is disabled entirely, not just for non-root. This is
an ubuntu wide decision we will not (cannot) change it for xubuntu even if we don't have
a printer gui.
But getting around that as you documented is a solution.
Jani
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