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Re:CVE-2019-14287: Sudo Bug Allows Restricted Users to Run C... by chopin on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:12AM (#21258520)
You need sudo access (at least in Linux Mint, I suspect also in Ubuntu) to be able to manipulate printer settings. I've setup this for a special role granted to all users on our machines at home as sometimes the printers are recognized as offline although they are clearly online.

There are mundane use cases for this.

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Re:CVE-2019-14287: Sudo Bug Allows Restricted Users to Run C... by milliams on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:26AM (#21258716)
On openSUSE at least there is an `lp` group for this purpose.
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Re:CVE-2019-14287: Sudo Bug Allows Restricted Users to Run C... by CameronNemo on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:08PM (#21260021)
There is also this -- https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/cups-pk-helper/
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