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Re: lprm not working for users



Marsh <meg@dexa.com> wrote:
: I just installed Debian 1.3 and all is mostly well.  However, when a
: non-root user attempts to remove a print job from the queue lprm gives
: a "permission denied" message.  The lp executables all seem to be
: installed suid:

: -rwsr-sr-x   1 root     lp          13208 Feb 11  1997 /usr/bin/lprm

: and the spool path is: /var/spool/lpd/lp

: drwxrwsr-x   2 root     lp           1024 Jan 27 11:52 lp

: Did I miss something?

Mhmmm. What lpr package do you have installed? (dpkg -l | grep lpr)
I noticed this problem with older packages. lpr_5.9-20.deb ist the
latest stable one.

Ciao ...
	... PIT ...


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