Hi everyone.
The lpr rpm in Mandrake 7.0 is buggy; no one but root may print!! (Note
that this same rpm is in the current Mandrake Cooker release, so I'm not
totally off-topic here. ;)
In case anyone's interested in the error message (and hasn't read the
newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake recently) it's:
lpr: cannot open printer description file
..when you type "lpr" on the commandline. I have high security-level
turned on, but I don't think this should be a problem. (And if it is,
why isn't it documented..?!?)
My printer is an Epson LQ570+, and has been properly configured from the
printtool inside control-panel. lpd is running properly.
The current fix that everyone's using is to downgrade to the version of
lpr that comes with Mandrake 6.1, but if I recall correctly, there are
some security problems with that version of lpr. (Something about a
race condition that resulted in the ability of people without enough
rights to view a file still being able to print it.)
If the maintainer of this rpm isn't on the ml, can someone please pass
along their e-mail address so I can inform them?
Thanks,
James
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