On Monday 06 May 2019 09:43:16 am Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 05:16:04PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > FYI I am a member of the lpadmin group. Whats next? reboot to make
> > it take effect?
>
> Log out and back in to acquire the new privileges in your interactive
> session.
>
> However, in the case of CUPS via loopback HTTP, I don't know whether
> that's actually required. The CUPS daemon may take the privileges
> directly from the /etc/{passwd,group} files.
>
> > You have made it very clear not to assign a pw to root, do
> > everything with sudo.
>
> Bunk. You can still do things normally. In fact, normal (root having
> a password) is still the default in Debian, insofar as anything is.
>
I've run 4 wheezy installs here for several years, and have never had a
root pw set.
> Also, having a root password makes it possible to login in single user
> mode when there's a file system problem. Good luck with that under an
> Ubuntu-style (sudo only) setup.
A problem I have not had since ext4. But now I'm getting touchy about it
because amanda will not build on stretch. So I've no backups. Using the
stretch version is a huge backup, to 3.3.9 when my stuff is setup to
wrap 3.5.1. And even 3.5.1 can be as buggy as august roadkill that 4
days old. Amanda I'm sorry to say, has been sold to Betsol, who may have
to be sued for putting gpl'd code behind a paywall.
I did get the sound working, so now my list of stretch don't works is a
little shorter. My next step is to edit my .procmailrc and disable the
calls to clamscan as its occasionally locking up at 100%.
Doing that I logged a strange message in the term screen:
gene@coyote:~$ geany .procmailrc
** (geany:17281): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus:
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application
did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply,
the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
What the heck is that all about??? And how do I fix that??
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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