Re: perms

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 6/13/22 14:49, mick crane wrote:
> On 2022-06-13 19:11, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > Hi Gene,
> >
> > For CUPS - you can use lpadmin from a terminal as a command line.
> >
> > Open a konsole terminal, su - inside it, then use lpadmin
>
> Just looking to see if I could remember how to add a cups printer 
> noticed that 

I am in lpadmin group in /etc/group which might be why I look to be able 
to login

as me in cups webpage "add printer".

I just looked, cup was installed when I rebooted this time but 
/etc/group has only an

lp entry, no lpadmin. So I made it like this: "lp:x:7:gene" and it seems 
to have worked.

> colours would likely be the colours of the shell and the editor rather 
> than the terminal.
> I think I did this "select-editor" in mc and was presented with a choice.
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80845/how-to-set-default-editor-viewer-for-midnight-commander-to-sublime 
>
> maybe there are things to do in [colors] section of
> ~/.config/mc/ini

That also was fixed by a re-install.

Thank you, Take care & stay well, mick

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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