>And... the only reason I got a working printer is I made myself a 
>member of the
>'sys' group otherwise creation of /etc/cups/printer.conf would 
>have failed due
>to lack of permission. Since I was a member of the sys group, 
>permission for
>cups operation was satisfied, however, apparently printer driver 
>generation with
>the 'foomatic-db-generation' package uses another scheme prompting 
>the error.
>How to solve for a normal user?

I believe users have to be a member of the lp group. Perhaps that 
is the root cause of the problems?

Darrell