Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!iuvax!uceng!krishnan
From: krishnan@uceng.UC.EDU (Ramaswamy Krishnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: lp can't print under hpux 7.0!!!
Keywords: lp, suid
Message-ID: <5356@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 5 Jul 90 14:26:31 GMT
References: <360@cmic.UUCP>
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Lines: 27

In article <360@cmic.UUCP> garvey@cmic.UUCP (Joe Garvey) writes:
>Try the following:
>
>$ su lp
>$ lp /etc/motd
>
>It will fail under HP-UX 7.0. Lp (the user) can't submit print jobs. Actually
>that's not true. Lp can submit a print job, it will just error out when
>execution is attempted.
>
>Does anyone know how this wonderful state of affairs occurred? Is there
>a work around?

We found this problem as soon we upgraded to 7.0 - and I posted it
here and of course, our call to HP support is yet to be answered
satisfactorily.  It seems that when user lp execs lp command, the
Cf file created is owned by root - which user lp does not have the
privilege to lock and so it fails.

Did we find a fast dumb hack?  Yes - I had to make the print queue
that was calling lp to remote print to my own system!  Good for once
to not know oneself ;-)

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