Setting up the printer in CUPS.

[jplaydebian]

Good afternoon members.
I installed Debian KDE, but a question arose.
Why couldn't I access the printer setup in CUPS as a regular user? I had to reinstall CUPS before I could access the printer. I'm noob on Linux.

Thankful.

[ruwolf]

Because it is system settings...

[jplaydebian]

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[arochester]

A simpler way? https://dflinux.frama.io/thebeginnersha ... ig-printer

[jplaydebian]

I could not access the printer configuration, it was locked, even entering the password to unlock, after I reinstalled CUPS, then appeared a lock to unlock and have access, must have been a bug in CUPS.

[arzgi]

I could not access the printer configuration, it was locked, even entering the password to unlock, after I reinstalled CUPS, then appeared a lock to unlock and have access, must have been a bug in CUPS.

Not so sure about that. Do you belong to lpadmin group?

To check in konsole or like

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groups

if lpadmin is not one of listed
as root

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adduser $USER lpadmin

$USER being your user name. Logout and log back in. Try again.

[Cyborg]

I also found that I needed to add my user to the lpadmin group before I could access localhost:631/ (CUPS).