Give user ability to enable a printer

[mlmclean]

How can I give a user the ability to enable printers that "go down". I do not want them signing on as su. I've tried various combinations of groups and roles to no avail.

Thanks.

 

[Chapter11]

Make them a member of the "printq" group.

 

[needcoffee]

Assign the users to the printq group.
I am assuming the DOWN message is from queue status and you only have one device assigned to each queue.
Use enq -P LAS02 -U
Substitute your queue name for LAS02
You can verify the queue is up quickly with
enq -s -P LAS02

 

[mlmclean]

I tried adding them to the printq primary and administrative group. That did not solve my problem. Any other thoughts?

 

[Chapter11]

Can you be more specific then as to what the problem is?

Members of group "printq" have access to the "enable" command.

 

[mlmclean]

I solved the problem by setting administrative user to "true" and enrolling the users in "printq" group. Thanks for your help.

 

[DTicky]

Does anyone here know how to write a script to do this so the user can enter the queue name and not have to enter the command?

 

[vivek1712]

Hi DTicky,

Assume that there r 3 depts. and in for each dept. there r 3 ques. The undermentioend script will give user option to choose between depts. and printer ques. The user can enable his/her desired que through this script without wntering the command. Change the print ques according to ur requirement.


while true
do
tput clear
echo "^[[4m Printer Status ^[[0m"
tput cud1
echo " Department A = 1 "
echo " Department B = 2 "
echo " Department C = 3 "
echo " Exit = 4 "
tput cud1
echo "Enter your choice : \c"
read opt
case $opt in
1) lpstat -ad1a,d1b,d1c | grep -v : | pg ;;
2) lpstat -ad2a,d2b,d2c | grep -v : | pg ;;
3) lpstat -ad3a,d3b,d3c | grep -v : | pg ;;
4) break ;;
esac
echo "Do you want to enable any que [Y/N] : \c"
read ans1
if [ $ans1 = "Y" -o $ans1 = "y" ]
then
tput cud1
echo "Enter que name to activate : \c"
read quenm
quenm=`echo $quenm | tr "A-Z" "a-z"`
if [ $opt = "1" ]
then
case $quenm in
d1a|d1b|d1c) disable d1a d1b d1c
enable $quenm ;;
*) echo "^[[5mInvalid que name^[[0m" ;;
esac
else
if [ $opt = "2" ]
then
case $quenm in
d2a|d2b|d2c) disable d2a d2b d2c
enable $quenm ;;
*) echo "^[[5mInvalid que name^[[0m" ;;
esac
else
if [ $opt = "3" ]
then
case $quenm in
d3a|d3b|d3c) disable d3a d3b d3c
enable $quenm ;;
*) echo "^[[5mInvalid que name^[[0m" ;;
esac
fi
fi
fi
fi
done

Best Regards,
vivek