1. went to http://localhost:631/printers/<queuename> 2. Selected "Modify Printer" 3. Entered My username and password when promPted by Basic Authentication dialog 4. Received "Forbidden" message Expected to be able to administer printers through the CUPS web interface, since, when I created my account during installation, I checked "Administrator" option, which put me in the "wheel" group. POSSIBLE SOLUTION I fixed this on my system, by: 1. sudo vim /etc/cups/cups-files.conf 2. Added 'wheel' to the SystemGroup line: # Administrator user group, used to match @SYSTEM in cupsd.conf policy rules... # This cannot contain the Group value for security reasons... SystemGroup sys root wheel I think this should be the default so we have one less hurdle when troubleshooting printer problems. ADDITIONAL DETAILS For reference, on Ubuntu 16.10, this line is: SystemGroup lpadmin and I was in this group by default. Related discussions: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/294675 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=309128
Hi Robin, I am not sure if it is good to add 'wheel' group to SystemGroup by default, so I asked upstream about it. I will tell you outcome.
Upstream said they are only historical reasons for it and they are no longer actual as other operating systems are adding their groups. So I will add 'wheel' as default.
Great. This will make administering printers easier and meet expectations of what a system administrator should be able to do. Thank you Zdenek.
cups-2.2.0-5.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-cd323b81de
cups-2.2.0-5.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-cd323b81de
cups-2.2.0-5.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.