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Add wheel to system groups#5638
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Members of the wheel group are able to gain system privileges, so for intents and purposes of CUPS it can be considered a system group. This allows to use privileged operations in the web interface as the user instead of root for members of the wheel group.
Fedora Linux applies this by default: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/235477/cups-add-printer-page-returns-forbidden-on-web-interface