[cups.general] lock printer

Jerome Alet alet at librelogiciel.com
Wed Jan 24 09:49:21 PST 2007


On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 06:20:11AM -0500, helpmeforlinux wrote:
> I every body . i want to lock printer so that no one can access printer only root can access printer. normal user can not user printer.
> How to achieve this as i have changed the permission of /dev/lpo and /dev/usb/lp0 but then also normal user is able to print.

How ?

With the lp/lpr client software ? Then it's the normal and expected 
behavior.

With 'cat >/dev/usb/lp0' ? then you didn't change the permissions

bye

Jerome Alet





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