Deleting someone elses print job
Jorge Gonzalez Villalonga
jorgegv at icai.upco.es
Tue Apr 13 17:07:13 GMT 1999
Miquel Bonastre wrote:
>
> > I need to set up one user so he can use the Windows Print Manager to
> > delete any print job, he is the print manager. However I do not want him
> > to have any other kind of supervisory privelages on the linux server for
> > now. How do I do this?
>
> I tried to do something like this with the option
>
> admin users = printmaster
>
> in the printer share, and my surprise was that his print jobs
> were owned by root but the lprm command was executed as the
> user.
>
> Is this a bug? Has anybody tried this succesfully?
>
Don't know if this is a bug, but I think the thign should be just the
opposite: queue the jobs as a user, so that it appears in the queue with
the right owner, but do the lprm as root, and so it can be removed
freely.
I asked about this issue a few weeks ago, and got no response.
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Jorge Gonzalez <jorgegv at icai.upco.es> -o)
ICAI - Universidad Pontificia Comillas /\\
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