[cups.general] umask-like setting for jobs printed to file?
Michael Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Fri Oct 21 13:12:39 PDT 2011
Sorry, no. Device URIs using the "file" scheme are only there for development/testing purposes (we disable support by default), and we explicitly do not support general usage because of security considerations.
There are at least a couple backends on the cups.org links page that can be used instead for this:
http://www.cups.org/links.php
On Oct 21, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Brian wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a queue that prints to a local file (using the DeviceURI file: parameter) but the file ends up getting really restrictive ownership/permissions, they are...
>
> -rw------ root admin 5288677 Oct 21 15:21 printedfile
>
> Is there a way to control the permissions the printed file receives? I have perl scripts that process these files but it runs as the user I am logged in as and it can't do certain things with the file because of the permissions.
>
> Thanks
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