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Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 08:56:13AM +0100, NW wrote: >> I have been looking at the possibility of using my one printer for all >> three computers at home, see other thread. Now I don't know if I have >> done anything silly but ..... >> >> Yesterday I couldn't print anything. Research tracked down the problem >> to the permissions on dev/lp0. They were rw-rw---- with user = root and >> group = lp. So others had no permissions. >> >> I used chmod (with sudo) to change the permissions to rw-rw-rw- and I >> was then able to print. Fine. >> >> Today same problem. The permissions had reverted to rw-rw----. I have >> changed them again. Now I don't want to have to keep running chmod every >> session, that is just silly and anyway it has only just started to happen. >> >> Can anyone help here please? For a start I don't understand why the new >> set of permissions changed back. Shouldn't my change remain fixed? > > Other people have pointed out the correct solution (adding users to > the lp group). The reason it changes back, for the record, is that > device files don't actually exist on disk - they're created at boot > time by udev. It's possible to configure udev to create them with > different permissions - but there's not much point. > > Well, so far all else has failed, so can anyone tell me how to configure udev so that I get the right permissions on lp0? This seems to be my only option. I just can't see that I have made any changes to how printing works for me, yet it suddenly went wrong!! thanks Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html