Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:49:37 -0500 From: Rick Voland <rpvoland@spamcop.net> To: rotkap@gmx.de Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: print/cups-base 1.2.0_2 and locally connected printer Message-ID: <44A9D741.8030909@spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <i7bon3-2ig1.ln1@news.t-online.com> References: <449DE614.3040204@spamcop.net> <449F43EF.6030107@spamcop.net> <200607011444.36821.david.marec@free.fr> <44A97652.7070003@freebsd.org> <i7bon3-2ig1.ln1@news.t-online.com>
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Heino Tiedemann wrote: > "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> If memory serves me right, David MAREC wrote: >>> Is there new device policies defined by cups ? >>> >> I noticed that the cups port now installs a cups user and group. I >> infer from that change that some portion of cups now runs as a >> non-privileged user, and that if you're driving a parallel port, it >> needs to writable (readable too?) by the new cups user. >> >> (I encountered this problem on my RELENG_6/i386 print server machine, >> made /dev/lpt0 owned by cups:cups, and it worked. > > root:cups is also workig (rw-rw----). > > Heino > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You may want to read http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.ports.bugs/browse_thread/thread/2afcd691d1fa4207/e74721b94f2b02a6?lnk=st&q=freebsd+cups&rnum=7#e74721b94f2b02a6 This message suggests a solution that involves changing permissions on /dev/lpt* (also an issue for usb printers) -------------begin quote Add following lines to /etc/devfs.rules: [system=10] add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups And following to /etc/rc.conf: devfs_system_ruleset="system" -------------end quote Also, you can check out this Problem Report that is cited in the above message: ports/99460 ---------- Rick Voland rpvoland@spamcop.net
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