Reconfiguring lpd permissions

Lincoln Peters lincoln_peters at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 21 16:51:13 PDT 2002


I still need to re-configure lpd to allow remote printing before restarting 
would change anything, don't I?  It seems that there's nothing wrong with 
lpd itself; the problem is the configuration, and I can't make enough sense 
out of the configuration to fix it.


>From: Mark Street <jet at sonic.net>
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: <talk at nblug.org>, talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Re: Reconfiguring lpd permissions
>Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:21:58 -0700
>
>service lpd restart
>
>as root should do it on both machines, assuming you upgraded both of them.
>
>
>At 01:09 PM 7/21/2002 -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
>
>>After I got the updated LPRng with the non-relaxed permissions (errata for 
>>RedHat 7.3), I discovered that I can no longer print to my print server.  
>>I looked at /etc/lpd.conf and /etc/lpd.perms on my print server, and I 
>>can't make any sense out of either of them.  So how do I allow other 
>>computers to print to my printer with the new rules?
>>
>>Both my workstation and the print server are running RedHat 7.3 and are 
>>up-to-date with all the errata.




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