On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:24 -0500, Hooker, Jonathan wrote: > I am trying to get system-config-printer to authenticate as a sudo > user (one that is a part of the wheel group) instead of the root user > when trying to add or modify a printer in fedora 10. I have been > unsuccessful in finding any help on this topic anywhere on the > internet. What you need to do is adjust your CUPS policy so that it counts your special user as a 'system' user. In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf you'll see a section that starts: <Policy default> In that section are sub-sections like this: <Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer ...> Require user @SYSTEM Order deny,allow </Limit> Here, '@SYSTEM' means 'in one of the system groups', and the default CUPS system groups are sys, root, and system. In order to make 'wheel' one of the system groups, add a line near the top (not in any section) like this: SystemGroup sys root system wheel Hmm, perhaps 'wheel' should be one of the default groups... > In previous versions the authentication used was consolehelper but > this does not seem to be the case in FC10. The last release where that was the case was Fedora Core 5. :-) > It also seems that it does not use PolicyKit either which other > system-config type programs are now doing. Not in Fedora 10 -- that was added in Fedora 11. I wrote about it a few days ago here: http://cyberelk.net/tim/2009/08/11/policykit-and-printing/ Tim. */
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