print/cups-base 1.2.0_2 and locally connected printer

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, David MAREC wrote:
> Le lundi 26 juin 2006 04:18, Rick Voland a écrit :
> 
>> It seems to be a permissions thing.
> 
> I have the same problem running FreeBSD 6.1.
> A few weeks ago, «cups» stopped printing through local ports while  «lpd» 
> dæmon was still working.
> ( maybe, as soon as i removed cups-lpr from the system )
> 
>> Now, I can print to the parallel port.  I didn't have to do this with
>> print/cups-base 1.1.23.0_9.
> 
> Setting «rw» permissions to group and others to that device allows «cupsd » 
> to work through local ports.
> Setting «rw» permissions to group only, does'nt.
> 
> 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.  Edit /etc/devfs.conf
to set this ownership on the next reboot.)

Bruce.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 249 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/attachments/20060703/3efc0e8b/signature.pgp