Recipe 14.9. Restricting Users from Printers and Classes
14.9.1 Problem
You have some printers
you would like to restrict to selected users. You
don't want people printing pictures of their kids on
the design group's fancy graphics printer, for
example.
14.9.2 Solution
Use the lpadmin command:
# lpadmin -p hp6L -u allow:carla,jenn,dancer
This changes /etc/cups/printers.conf:
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.20
# Written by cupsd on Fri Jan 7 00:36:36 2004
<DefaultPrinter hp6L>
Info
Location
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
AllowUser carla
AllowUser jenn
AllowUser dancer
</Printer>
You can also restrict classes:
# lpadmin -p art-dept -u allow:carla,jenn,dancer
This modifies /etc/cups/classes.conf.
You can also deny users:
# lpadmin -p hp6L -u deny:daryl,larry,otherlarry
14.9.3 Discussion
Don't try to edit classes.conf
or printers.conf directly, because your changes
will be lost. Use lpadmin.
14.9.4 See Also
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