Re: [Lpr-discuss] printtool must be run as root

[Nick M. <ni...@va...>]

begin  Ben Woodard quotation:
> What do you guys think of the idea of making it such that printtool
> didn't need to always be run as root? Concieveably if /etc/princap
> were owned by the lpr user then there would be no reason that it
> needed to be run as root except for the module loading for the
> parallel port auto detection.

	(long-delayed answer)

	Yes, I think that this would be a grand idea.  At the very
least, it could have a wrapper which loads the parallel port modules
(tries to, anyway), and then drops permissions down to lpd for the
rest of it.

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Nick Moffitt, Professional Services