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From: stewart@houxm.UUCP (Bill Stewart HO 4K-435 x0705)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: System V lp setup
Message-ID: <579@houxm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 22:55:36 EST
Article-I.D.: houxm.579
Posted: Wed Mar 18 22:55:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Mar-87 06:01:43 EST
References: <219@polyof.UUCP> <1990001@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Summary: lpadmin is gross and picky, but you *can* do it

In article <1990001@hpl-opus.HP.COM>, jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Bob Jewett) writes:
: > > model.  it seems as though lpadmin is HARD CODED to a handful of not very
: > 
: > you must use > the '-i' option. (LPADMIN(1M)).  For example,
: 
:     the problem is that any model must be owned by lp (and group bin?).
:     Try changing ownership of the files in ~lp/model and see if -m works.

lpadmin is also picky about the file permissions; make the ownership
and permissions the same as other model files and it'll work.

What annoys me about the lp system is that "lp" runs setuid lp;
this means you can't lp a file from a directory with 700 permissions
or a file with 600 permissions - you have to feed lp the file as stdin.
A setgid program would occasionally have this problem, but much less often.
have problems (e.g. for a file 
-- 
Bill Stewart	ho95c!wcs AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
HO 4K-435 x0705   (201-949-0705)
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