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- From: rogerc@kuhio.wpd.sgi.com (Roger Chickering)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: lp unable to access files
- Message-ID: <ujbq1ss@twilight.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:52:18 GMT
- References: <1ii0fcINN3va@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In <1ii0fcINN3va@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ce095@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Traigle) writes:
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- >This printing stuff is really causing me problems. :) This one
- >should be easier to answer (hopefully) than my previously mentioned
- >one.
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- >For some reason, lp can only access (and hence print) files that are
- >world readable. How can this be remedied?
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- This is because lp is setuid lp.
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- Either change the permissions on the file, or print like this:
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- lp < file
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- -Roger
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