Re: lprm won't let user remove his own print jobs
Mike Orr <mso@jimpick.com> writes:
>
> I seem to have the permissions messed up for lpd, because user's can't
> remove their own jobs. /var/spool/lpd and subdirs are set to
> "drwxrwxr-x root.lp". I tried drwxrwxrwx, drwxrwsr-x and drwxrwsrwx but
> none of these helped.
>
There are security problems with lpr and it doesn't seem to detect
local users properly. The fix is to upgrade to lprng (which is in the
unstable tree, but I have had no problems---in fact it's a lot nicer
than plain vanilla lpr & co.).
Graeme
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