Create restricted user account that can only administer printers

davholla · 06-24-2009, 05:14 AM

Is it possible to create a user account that can only log on, clear printer queues and not do anything else?

MensaWater · 06-24-2009, 08:02 AM

You can use sudo for this purpose.

In the sudo model you create individual accounts for each person that is going to login to the system. You then modify the sudoers file (with visudo) command to grant them access to only specific commands as root.

Sudo is pretty widely used in UNIX and Linux for many purposes.

Type "man sudo", "man visudo" and "man sudoers" for more details.

davholla · 06-24-2009, 08:54 AM

I didn't you do could change sudo like that. Thanks.