On Sun 29 Mar 2015 at 18:48:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 29 March 2015 12:58:11 Brian wrote: > > > > These directives should be in /etc/cups/cups-files. > > I was just making sure I could kill a job gone wild without having to > become root on a rootless system to do it. My color laser would have > wasted 40 sheets of paper while I was gaining access rights.
Membership of the lpadmin group is sufficient to give administration rights to a user. Having him in the root group is very questionable. There is also the 'cancel' button on the printer. > > root doesn't need to be in SystemGroup. There might be a good reason > > for the presence of group gene but I cannot think of one. > > Root was inherited from a previous config, and gene is the operative that > lets me do admin stuff. It is my machine. :) Thats also why I appended > the network/security part of my msg. Its terrible practice if the > machine is connected directly to the modem. The inheritance would have been from a change made to the default cupsd.conf. It is your machine; one hopes nobody follows in the footsteps of its administrator. > > The default for Group and User on Debian is lp. gene and sys seem to > > be superfluous. > > Probably. Definitely. > > This is almost the standard Wheezy, > > Correct, the install here is not exactly wheezy, but is based on it. > > > > It will not suffice on Jessie. The > > BrowseOrder, BrowseAllow, BrowseAddress and BrowseRemoteProtocols > > directives are no longer part of cups. cups also know nothing about > > 'CUPS'. > > Gah, Mike's been playing again, or someone at debian. What was wrong > with the way it did work? A rhetorical question? Upstream has explained why a number of times. > As for Mike, I've known him since he was DodgeColt on Delphi. > > > dnssd and ethernet ports are unrelated. > > The dnssd showed up sometime after I'd set the printer up at a local > ethernet address, I didn't make a conscious effort to add it. Bad > assumption on my part? dnssd is Bonjour (Avahi on Linux). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/30032015103748.d83325364...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
