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Re: print permissions



On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:14:00AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote:
> How can I control who can print and who can't?

I am guessing, but I guess you could put everyone who may print
in the lp group, and remove the setgid bit on /usr/bin/lpr* -- but
then those users will be able to play with the files in /var/spool/lpd
directly, which they normally cannot.


Hamish
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