[26257] in Athena Bugs
[Fwd: printer problem fixed]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Dec 17 16:12:21 2004
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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This is lore about Athena Linux printers having wrong permissions that
came to me back in August.
I noticed that the /dev/lp* is owned by root. Perhaps it wants to be
owned by daemon?
-wdc
-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Victor Chudnovsky <vchudnovsky@alum.mit.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Subject: printer problem fixed
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:22:13 -0400
Hey Bill,
Remember I mentioned that when I upgraded to Athena 9.3.8, the print
spooler kept giving me a permission denied error when I tried to print
(to my local printer)? The 9.3.11 upgrade did not fix this, but I just
found the cause. I changed the owner /dev/lp0 to be daemon:lp, and that
seemed to do the trick. Right now, my permissions read as follows:
athena% ls -la /dev/lp*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 8 2003 /dev/lp -> lp0
crw-rw---- 1 daemon lp 6, 0 Feb 18 2004 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Feb 18 2004 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Feb 18 2004 /dev/lp2
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Feb 18 2004 /dev/lp3
lpd is running as user daemon; I guess maybe before the upgrade it was
running as root or something.
Feel free to pass this along.
Victor
