On 17/09/2014 10:04, Andriy Gapon wrote: > On 17/09/2014 09:21, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >> Instead make cups-base install the attached devd configuration file in >> /usr/local/etc/devd/ which does the needed chown for printers only. > > The problem is that my printer does not work if I also do not change permissions > on /dev/usbctl. But I do not really want /dev/usbctl to be owned by cups as > there can be other services / users that need access to usbctl. Actually I take this back. My /dev/usbctl was not world readable as it should be by default. Not sure why I changed its permissions from 0644 to 0660, probably a litle bit of paranoia. Now that I changed the permissions to 0664 and installed your script printing works without problems. Thanks! > Is there anything smarter than mucking with device ownership? > > In other words, I have no problem granting cups user or group a full access to > all USB devices. I have a problem with changing owner or group of USB devices > to cups, because that interferes with other accesses to those devices. > -- Andriy GaponReceived on Wed Sep 17 2014 - 05:25:05 UTC
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