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The man page for dseditgroup is even harder to understand than most man pages, and what I've seen online is that the commands beginning with "ds" tend to be very powerful, in the sense that making mistakes can supposedly screw up your system (even to the point of making it unbootable).
Anyway, I might say that I earlier (while I was waiting for a response on this thread) managed to add myself to the boinc_project group using a dseditgroup command that I found online, but that didn't work for the boinc_master group, which I had to "create" anew in the Accounts control panel. The reason I came back and reopened this thread is that I found out that I have to login as the administrator any time that I want to manage print jobs, and according to the error message, what I need to do is add myself to the "print operators" group.
But, I found another thread that says the solution to the print problem is more complex. Apparently, Apple made a design decision to only allow administrators in Snow Leopard to be able to pause and resume print jobs! I disagree with that decision, and the workaround involves using sudo to edit both /etc/cupsd/cups.conf and /etc/authorization which seems a little bit overkill. After all, if dseditgroup is "powerful," imagine how much more powerful changing /etc/authorization might be....
Message was edited by: jonathandl92
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