On Monday 30 March 2015 05:59:40 Brian wrote: > On Sun 29 Mar 2015 at 18:48:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 29 March 2015 12:58:11 Brian wrote: > > > These directives should be in /etc/cups/cups-files. > > > > I was just making sure I could kill a job gone wild without having > > to become root on a rootless system to do it. My color laser would > > have wasted 40 sheets of paper while I was gaining access rights. > > Membership of the lpadmin group is sufficient to give administration > rights to a user. Having him in the root group is very questionable. > There is also the 'cancel' button on the printer.
Here, its X-Cancel. And, tell that to cups, or if installed, on BEH, which sees it as a failure & restarts the job, wasting another 40 sheets of paper & toner by the time you get it stopped by nuking the cups stuff in /var/cups or /var/tmp, or maybe /tmp, depending on the mood the installer was in for that version at the time. You have to go find it, then get rights enough to nuke it. Thats at least 2 minutes, while a 19 ppm printer is churning out paper. > > > root doesn't need to be in SystemGroup. There might be a good > > > reason for the presence of group gene but I cannot think of one. > > > > Root was inherited from a previous config, and gene is the operative > > that lets me do admin stuff. It is my machine. :) Thats also why I > > appended the network/security part of my msg. Its terrible practice > > if the machine is connected directly to the modem. > > The inheritance would have been from a change made to the default > cupsd.conf. It is your machine; one hopes nobody follows in the > footsteps of its administrator. It is also a single (ancient human) user machine. The wife isn't "computer literate". The only machine she was ever forced to use at school when she was teaching elementary music 20 years ago was a twin floppy equipt dosbox, running MSDOS3.1, if they could find a boot floppy. > > > The default for Group and User on Debian is lp. gene and sys seem > > > to be superfluous. > > > > Probably. > > Definitely. Excised. From cupsd.conf and from /etc/group. It remains to be seen if I have enough rights as a member of lpadmin only to control cups. However, I cannot recall if changes to group are instant or need a reboot to fully effect them. > > > This is almost the standard Wheezy, > > > > Correct, the install here is not exactly wheezy, but is based on it. And uses the wheezy repo's. > > > It will not suffice on Jessie. The > > > BrowseOrder, BrowseAllow, BrowseAddress and BrowseRemoteProtocols > > > directives are no longer part of cups. cups also know nothing > > > about 'CUPS'. > > > > Gah, Mike's been playing again, or someone at debian. What was > > wrong with the way it did work? > > A rhetorical question? Upstream has explained why a number of times. Rhetorical? No. URL? > dnssd is Bonjour (Avahi on Linux). Thats an Appleism I assume. Never had one of them critters that worked. There is a ][ out in the wood shed, but its memory is gone & won't boot. I never cared enough to get out a scope and find out which chip was bad. I am a CET, so it not the lack of a scope or semi knowledge, I have 2 dual trace 100Mhz triggered scopes and am well versed in semi things. And that is what function? And can it be removed without eviscerating the rest of the system? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503300752.32657.ghesk...@wdtv.com
