Re: Permissions problem on lp? SOLVED
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On Tuesday 20 May 2003 2:15 am, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 07:43:29AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> According to cups documentation, user.group in cupsd.conf specifies
> the user and group that filter programs run as.
>
> During a print job, cupsd is running as root, and filter program is
> running as lp:
>
Thanks for your help - I discovered my problem in the end.
The cable was not properly screwed into the parallel port!
Now its running properly I see that the filters have lp.sys permissions and
"parallel" is running as root
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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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