Re: LUG: [Fwd: Printing within Enterprise Linux] - Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:21:08 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: [Fwd: Printing within Enterprise Linux]

From : John Berninger <johnw@berningeronline.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:21:08 -0500

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004, Ed Anderson wrote:

> The printer configuration tool modifies the configuration files in
> /etc/cups. If your system administrator were to give your user write
> permission to the /etc/cups directory and all its files, you may be
> able to run the config tool as that user.
That won't work because the redhat-config-printer binary is
symlinked to consolehelper, which is the bit that actually asks you for
the root password (or just lets you get on with things if you're root).
It has nothing to do with file permissions (at least not directly).

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