CUPS admin for users

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/29/05, A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru <A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru> wrote:
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> > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 5:21 AM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: CUPS admin for users
> >
> > Hi,
> >    We have an FC2 machine that has our printer attached. For whatever
> > reason the printer is sometimes turned off or out of paper when jobs
> > are sent to it. The jobs don't print and the printer queue backs up.
> > The problem is that to start the printer again seems to take root
> > access.
> >
> >    Is there are way to give specific users the ability to restart the
> > printer? Best case I'd like them to run the web CUPS GUI and just go
> > to the admin page, click on start and be allowed to get the printer
> > going again.
> >
> >    I'm thinking maybe there's a group that could be created to do
> > this? I could add these users to that group and then they could work
> > when I'm not here?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> You can define the access control configuration in the cupsd.conf file
> inside the 'Location' sections. Access rights can be defined for the
> administrative interface as a whole (Location /), administrative
> functions (Location /admin), printer configuration (Location /printers),
> etc.
>  Put the users who need the ability to start the printer into some
> group, and define the access rights for the Locations which they should
> be able to access:
> Set  the 'AuthClass' to  'Group';
> Set  the 'AuthGroupName' to the name of the group containing the users
> with the rights to restart the printer.
>
> This will give members of the specified group the ability to use
> web-based CUPS administrative interface (or specific Locations of that
> interface).
> You should also check that other configuration options (such as 'Allow
> from'/'Deny from') in the CUPS configuration file does not prevent users
> from accessing administrative interface from their computers.
>
> Alexey Fadyushin.
> Brainbench MVP for Linux.
> http://www.brainbench.com
>
Thanks Alexey,
   These instructions seem pretty straight forward, but I'm really
fuzzy tonight. How do I restart the cups daemon after editing the
cupsd.conf file without rebooting. I'm tired/

Thanks,
Mark