Allowing unprivileged users to restart print service

Howdy,
How would I add a user or group of users to be allowed to use server admin "Just" to restart the printer service, or otherwise admin the printer services. No other rights would be given to administer the server.
I assume there is a local group I can add their accounts to, but I'd rather use their open directory or active directory accounts.
Thank you for your attention,
Nate

Hi & welcome to the forums.
There is no Server Admin way to do whay you want afaiaa. So, this answer is a complete guess and may screw up your system.
There is a print group called lp in netinfo. If you can create a netinfo user called, say, PrintAdmin, and add it to the lp group, you may be able to give the PrintAdmin user access to the CUPS interface via port 631 using a web browser.
You will see this interface if you go http://localhost:631 while at your server. And, from this interface the PrintAdmin user may be able to to what you want.
But, this all begs the question, why do you need non-admins to restart a service?
hth,
b.

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