Hello! We’re currently evaluating Fedora Workstation as an alternative to Ubuntu at work. On Ubuntu we needed to add our non-wheel, non-sudo users to the groups lpadmin for managing printers and netdev for managing network connections. These groups do not exist on Fedora. How do I allow my users to…

I managed to get it to work, though not with a rule but with a localauthority file: # /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d/gnome-control-center_printadmin.pkla [Allow printadmin members to administrate printers] Identity=unix-group:printadmin Action=org.opensuse.cupspkhelper.mechanism.all-edit Res…

Allow non-wheel user to manage printers

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boredsquirrel (boredsquirrel) June 7, 2024, 12:47pm 9

this belongs to the set of “wheel-less” things that need manual config

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Allow non-wheel user to manage printers

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