CUPS policy to add paused jobs

Question

At our NGO we have public terminals, which people can use freely. We do want to offer some limited printing abilities. Currently /home/printing/ is mounted on terminals, from which admin prints from allowed ip.

Is there a way to define CUPS policy, that jobs submitted from some subnet are added as paused? Then from another IP, which has CUPS admin access, it could be started from webui interface.

Answer 1

So you're asking for some sort of staging/moderation of print jobs? You can try Option job-hold-until indefinite in the CUPS printers.conf file. There may be a way to wrap that in permissions limited to a particular source/subnet.