On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, Peter wrote off-list:

dproc@dol.net:

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My permission checks follow:

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chmod g+ -v /usr mode of /usr retained as 0765 (rwxrw-r-x)

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These look ok to me.

/usr looks odd. why not 755? or 775 if needed. but a directory should have execution permission set.

Thank you for your eagle eyes Peter, that was exactly it. I will leave until some day I am surfing the kernel sources to ask why unsetting the group execute permission on /usr only affected 'lp' and then only as a daemon child. Others may want to ask if it was dproc's carelessness that caused the problem, or something in harden_suse. Me - I am deliriously happy to be printing. Bye.