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Re: [LUG] Permissions problem

 

Simon Waters wrote:
> NW wrote:
>> Can anyone help here please? For a start I don't understand why the new
>> set of permissions changed back. Shouldn't my change remain fixed?
> 
> No device files are created dynamically you you'd have to change the
> udev settings which is easy but a bit weird if you are use to old style
> Unix.
> 
> However these days I think printing should be from the CUPS daemon, so
> I'm not sure previous comments about lp group are appropriate. I think
> something else has gone wrong already, probably you are using the wrong
> software to print.
> 
> What gave you the impression it couldn't write to /dev/lp0 ?
> 
When I had the problem I looked at http://localhost:631/ in the browser.
I looked at the printer details and there was a message which read ...

Unable to open device file "dev/lp0": Permission denied

so I changed the permissions as I said and then I could print OK.


> In particular on my system whilst group lp exists, no one is in it, and
> printing works fine.
> 
>  Simon
> 

Neil

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