Re: Permissions problem on lp?
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On Monday 19 May 2003 4:36 am, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 11:55:40PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> > I have devfsd installed, and its given the /dev/printers/0 owner and
> > group rights of root.lp
>
> Correct setting
> $ ls -l /dev/printers/0
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/printers/0
>
> > its given /dev/lp0 symlink the owner.group of root.root and mod
> > lr_xr_xr_x
>
> Correct setting
> $ ls -l /dev/lp0
> lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 May 18 20:45 /dev/lp0 ->
> printers/0
>
> > the configuration file for cupsd gives owner.group of lp.sys
>
> My cupsd.conf has lp.sys as the user and group the server runs under.
So why is cups allowed to write to /dev/lp0? the permissions on
/dev/printers/0 don't give write access to user lp.sys?
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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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